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 1973
Nature morte avec pastèque et grenades
1900–06
Alternate titles: Le Melon; Nature morte; Nature morte aux melons et grenades; Still Life; Still Life with Watermelon and Pomegranates; Still Life: Sugar-Bowl and Pomegranates; Stilleben mit Granatapfeln; The Watermelon
Rewald (W561); Venturi revised: 1900–05; Venturi (1145): 1900–06; Rivière: 1897; Schmidt: 1895–1905
Graphite and watercolor on paper
12 x 18 1/2 in. (30.5 x 47 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin, Cézanne, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen; Bronzen von Edgar Degas, May 19–June 16, 1927, no. 35?, as Stilleben mit Granatapfeln, lent by Otto Wacker, Berlin.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June 1937, no. 32, as Nature morte, dated 1900–06, lent by Mrs. Chester Beatty.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 66, as Still Life: Sugar-Bowl and Pomegranates, c. 1900, lent by Mrs. Beatty.
Tate Gallery, London, Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours, opening on April 10, 1946, no. 28, as Still Life, 1900-1906, lent by Chester Beatty. Traveled to: Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom, May–June 1946; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 1946.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Private Collectors, 1963. (no catalogue issued).
Tate Gallery, London, The Annenberg Collection, September 2–October 8, 1969, no. 7, ill.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, May 21–September 17, 1989, n.n., pp. 82–83, ill., as Still Life with Watermelon and Pomegranates. Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, May 6–August 5, 1990; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, August 16–November 15, 1990; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 4–October 13, 1991.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolors from the Metropolitan Museum's Collection, November 18, 2014–March 15, 2015.
Published References
Malpel, Charles. Notes sur l'art d'aujourd'hui et peut-être de demain. Paris: B. Grasset, 1910, p. 135, ill.
"Cézanne at Montross." American Art News 14, no. 14 (January 8, 1916), p. 2 (mentioned), as The Watermelon.
Wright, Willard Huntington. "Paul Cézanne." International Studio 57, no. 228 (February 1916), p. cxxx.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und seine Ahnen: Faksimiles nach Aquarellen, Feder- und anderen Zeichnungen von Tintoretto, Greco, Poussin, Corot, Delacroix, Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1921, pl. XVII.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 221, listed, as Le Melon.
Thomsen, Oluf. Christian Tetzen-Lunds Samling of moderne fransk Malerkunst. Copenhagen: Tetzen-Lund, 1934, no. 6 of checklist, pl. 21.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1145, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte.
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 55.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 561, ill.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 177, ill.
Coignard, Jérôme. "Le Salon de peinture de Mr. and Mrs. Annenberg." Beaux-arts magazine (Paris) 92 (July - August 1991), p. 64, ill., as Nature morte aux melons et grenades.
Shiff, Richard. "Mark, Motif, Materiality." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 111, fig. 12.
Bambach, Carmen C., Barker, Elizabeth E., Ives, Colta, Plomp, Michiel C., Stein, Perrin, Tinterow, Gary. "Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2000-2001." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 59, no. 2 (Autumn 2001), p. 56, ill.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 140, fig. 98.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection - New Edition. Stein, Susan Alyson and Asher Ethan Miller. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, no. 31, ill.
Shone, Richard. "Acquisitions (2000–10) of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century French art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (December 2010), p. 843, fig. XIII.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 61.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 295, ill., as Nature morte.
Record last updated July 30, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Nature morte avec pastèque et grenades, 1900–06 (FWN 1973)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1543 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
