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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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 99
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection)

Keywords

Provenance
Estate of Paul Cezanne
Ambroise Vollard, Paris and Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1907)
(Percy Moore Turner, London?)
Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin
Christian Tetzen-Lund, Copenhagen;
Tetzen-Lund Collection, Den Frie (auction), Copenhagen, May 18–19, 1925, no. 73
Otto Wacker, Berlin
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1928)
(Reid & Lefèvre, London,1925?)
Mrs. A. Chester Beatty, London (1936)
Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York (March 16, 1955)
Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg, Palm Springs (May 6, 1955);
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2001)
Exhibition History
1916b New York
Montross Gallery, New York, Cézanne, January 1–31, 1916, no. 8, as The Watermelon.
1927e Berlin
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.
1937a London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June 1937, no. 32, as Nature morte, dated 1900–06, lent by Mrs. Chester Beatty.
1939d London
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 66, as Still Life: Sugar-Bowl and Pomegranates, c. 1900, lent by Mrs. Beatty.
1946c London and traveling
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.
1963 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Private Collectors, 1963. (no catalogue issued).
1969b London
Tate Gallery, London, The Annenberg Collection, September 2–October 8, 1969, no. 7, ill.
1989 Philadelphia
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.
2014–15a New York
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 1910
Malpel, Charles. Notes sur l'art d'aujourd'hui et peut-être de demain. Paris: B. Grasset, 1910, p. 135, ill.
American Art News 1916
"Cézanne at Montross." American Art News 14, no. 14 (January 8, 1916), p. 2 (mentioned), as The Watermelon.
Wright 1916b
Wright, Willard Huntington. "Paul Cézanne." International Studio 57, no. 228 (February 1916), p. cxxx.
Marées-Gesellschaft 1921
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 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 221, listed, as Le Melon.
Thomsen 1934
Thomsen, Oluf. Christian Tetzen-Lunds Samling of moderne fransk Malerkunst. Copenhagen: Tetzen-Lund, 1934, no. 6 of checklist, pl. 21.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1145, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte.
Neumeyer 1958
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 55.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 561, ill.
Düchting 1989
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 177, ill.
Coignard 1991
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 2000
Shiff, Richard. "Mark, Motif, Materiality." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 111, fig. 12.
Bambach et al 2001
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 2008
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 2009
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.
Landrot 2010
Landrot, Gérard. Cézanne Aquarelles. Paris: Éditions Langlaude, 2010, p. 67, ill.
Shone 2010
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 2018
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 61.
Dauberville 2020
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 April 19, 2024).