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Catalogue entry

FWN 1932
Vase de fleurs
1885–88 (possibly later)
Alternate titles: Blumenvase (Vase au bouquet); Fleurs; Still life, flowers in a jar; Vase of Flowers
Rewald (W223); Venturi revised: 1895–1900
Graphite and watercolor on paper
18 5/16 x 11 13/16 in. (46.6 x 30 cm)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK (Bequest of Captain Stanley W. Sykes)

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Sir Victor Schuster, London
McNeil Reid, London
Reid & Lefèvre, London
Captain Stanley W. Sykes, Cambridge (1949);
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK (1966)
Exhibition History
1949 Huntington
Music and Arts Society, Huntington, United Kingdom, Paintings from the Collections of the Earl of Sandwich and Stanley W. Sykes, 1949, no. 12.
1949a London
The Lefevre Gallery, London, XIX Century French Masters, June–July 1949, no. 6, as Fleurs, recto of FWN1225, mentioned under no. 6 in the catalogue but probably not shown.
1953 Peterborough
Maxwell Art Gallery, Peterborough, United Kingdom, French Paintings, 1953, no. 33.
1973 Newcastle upon Tyne and traveling
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 73 verso, ill. in b/w, as Still life, flowers in a jar, lent by Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
1976–77 Cambridge, Mass.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, European Drawings from the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1976–77, no. 98.
1982 Tübingen and traveling
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 87, ill., as Blumenvase (Vase au bouquet), c. 1890, lent by Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Inv.-No. PD.6-1966). Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
1986 Oxford and traveling
Arts Council of Great Britain, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom, Impressionist Drawings from British Public and Private Collections, March 11–April 20, 1986, no. 10, fig. 65. Traveled to: Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom, April 30–June 1, 1986; The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, United Kingdom, June 7–July 13, 1986.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 149.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 91, ill. shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 223, ill.
Finch 1991
Finch, Christopher. Nineteenth-Century Watercolors. New York, London, Paris: Abbeville Press, 1991, pl. 367, as Vase of Flowers.
Terrasse 1995
Terrasse, Antoine. Les aquarelles de Cézanne. Paris: Flammarion, 1995, pp. 66-7, ill.
Armstrong 2004
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 81, fig. 31, as Vase of Flowers, 1890.
Simms 2008
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 97, fig. 66.
Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 283, fig. 200.
Record last updated March 23, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Vase de fleurs, 1885–88 (possibly later) (FWN 1932)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1203 (accessed on May 3, 2024).