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)
FWN 1939
Pêches et figues
1885–90
Alternate titles: Apfel und Birnen; Nature morte; Peaches and Figs; Poires et figues; Pommes et poires; Still Life of Peaches and Figs; Stilleben; Stilleben (Apfel und Birnen); Stilleben mit Äpel und Birnen
Rewald (W292); Venturi revised: 1895–1900; Venturi (1141): 1890–1900
Graphite and watercolor on paper
7 13/16 x 12 1/16 in. (19.8 x 30.7 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 55, as Stilleben (Apfel und Birnen), lent by Bruno Cassirer.
Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin, Cézanne, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen; Bronzen von Edgar Degas, May 19–June 16, 1927, no. 9, as Stilleben, lent by Bruno Cassirer, Berlin.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 83, as Apfel und Birnen, lent by Private collection.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 48, ill. lent by Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Wallace Collection, London, Poussin to Cézanne: French Drawings and Watercolours in the Ashmolean Museum, January–April 7, 2002, no. 51, ill., as Still Life of Peaches and Figs.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 25, ill., as Still Life of Peaches and Figs.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 99, ill.
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 103, ill.
Published References
Bernard, Émile. "Erinnerungen an Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 6, nos. 10-12 (1908), p. 429, ill.
Waldmann, Emil. "Paul Cézanne: zur Ausstellung im Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer." Kunst und Künstler 20, no. 4 (1922), ill. p. 135, as Stilleben.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1141, ill. vol. II, as Pommes et poires.
"Principales acquisitions des musées en 1980." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1346 (March 1981), p. 56, no. 303, ill. (reproduced upside-down), as Nature morte, c. 1890-1900.
Dunstan, Bernard. Painting Methods of the Impressionists. New York: Watson-Guptil, 1983, p. 99, ill.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 292, ill., as Poires et figues.
Whiteley, J.J.L. Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Vol. VII, French. School. Oxford, 2000, p. 988.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 292, fig. 209, as Peaches and Figs.
Notes
Rewald (1983, p. 155) noted: "When Bruno Cassirer fled Hitler's Germany, he took this watercolor along, after a friend had made an excellent copy which was left behind in his Berlin apartment. The copy was eventually confiscated by the Nazis and sold in Lucerne. The Swiss buyer, unaware of the substitution, lent the copy to numerous exhibitions ... [between 1955 and 1963] until it was discovered that the original was still in the collection of the heirs of Bruno Cassirer in England."
Record last updated September 20, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Pêches et figues, 1885–90 (FWN 1939)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1273 (accessed on January 25, 2025).
