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The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
Catalogue entry
FWN 1931
Pensées dans un pot
1885–88
Rewald (W221); Venturi revised: c.1890; Venturi (1137): 1885–90
Graphite and watercolor on paper; faded
13 3/8 x 10 7/16 in. (34 x 26.5 cm)
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Private collection, Osaka
Hugo Perls, New York;
Estate of Hugo Perls;
Christie's, New York, May 18, 1983, no. 120, ill.
Karl-Heinrich Müller, Düsseldorf (1983);
Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Neuss
Exhibition History
1938 Osaka
Municipal Museum, Osaka, Japan, Masterpieces of European Art, 1938, n.n.1951 Kamakura
Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan, Cézanne and Renoir, November 18–30, 1951, no. 14.1954 Tokyo
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Watercolor and Drawing, 1954, n.n.1957 Kyoto
Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, Masterpieces of Western Painting, 1957, no no.1963f New York
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 17, pl. XVIII, as Pensées dans un pot, c. 1885, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Perls, New York.1971 Washington, D.C. and traveling
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 44, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.Published References
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, p. 133, ill.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1137, ill. vol. II, as Pensées dans un pot.Takamizawa Mokuhansha 1940
Paul Cézanne: 1858–1885, 2 vols. Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1940, no. 1056.Kawakita 1957
Kawakita, Michiaki. Cézanne. Tokyo: Gakken, 1957, p. 5.Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 221, ill.Stiftung Insel Hombroich 2002
Stiftung Insel Hombroich. Museum und Raketenstation. Neuss: Stiftung Insel Hombroich, p. 159, ill.Record last updated December 22, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Pensées dans un pot, 1885–88 (FWN 1931), ; faded." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1201 (accessed on May 1, 2025).