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Catalogue entry

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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 546
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford (Presented by H.M. Government from the Estate of Richard and Sophie Walzer in accordance with their wishes) (inv. no. WP1980.82)

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Provenance
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Bruno Cassirer, Berlin and Oxford;
Sophie Walzer-Cassirer, Oxford;
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (1980)
Exhibition History
1921 Berlin
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.
1927e Berlin
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.
1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 83, as Apfel und Birnen, lent by Private collection.
1986 Tokyo and traveling
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.
2002 London
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.
2006–07 London
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 25, ill., as Still Life of Peaches and Figs.
2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 99, ill.
2021–22 Budapest
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 103, ill.
Published References
Bernard 1908a
Bernard, Émile. "Erinnerungen an Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 6, nos. 10-12 (1908), p. 429, ill.
Waldmann 1922
Waldmann, Emil. "Paul Cézanne: zur Ausstellung im Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer." Kunst und Künstler 20, no. 4 (1922), ill. p. 135, as Stilleben.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1141, ill. vol. II, as Pommes et poires.
Gazette des beaux-arts 1981
"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 1983
Dunstan, Bernard. Painting Methods of the Impressionists. New York: Watson-Guptil, 1983, p. 99, ill.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 292, ill., as Poires et figues.
Terrasse 1995
Terrasse, Antoine. Les aquarelles de Cézanne. Paris: Flammarion, 1995, p. 27, ill.
Whiteley 2000
Whiteley, J.J.L. Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Vol. VII, French. School. Oxford, 2000, p. 988.
Landrot 2010
Landrot, Gérard. Cézanne Aquarelles. Paris: Éditions Langlaude, 2010, p. 37, ill.
Lloyd 2015
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 April 20, 2024).