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Catalogue entry

FWN 1964
Nature morte avec encrier
1900–04
Alternate titles: Still Life with Inkpot; The Inkwell
Rewald (W566); Venturi revised: c.1895
Graphite and watercolor on paper
12 3/16 x 18 7/8 in. (31 x 48 cm)
Private collection

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris
Knoedler Galleries, New York
Palmer Family, Chicago;
Bertha Palmer Thorne, Bar Harbor, Maine;
Private collection, Munich
Private collection
Exhibition History
1946c London and traveling
Tate Gallery, London, Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours, opening on April 10, 1946, no. 48, as Still Life with Inkpot, 1906, lent by Etienne Bignou. Traveled to: Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom, May–June 1946; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 1946.
1952 New York
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cézanne: Rarely Shown Works, November 10–29, 1952, [W] 16, as Nature morte avec encrier, dated 1906.
1962 Brunswick, Maine
Walker Art Museum, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, French Impressionist and Post Impressionist Paintings from the Collections of Mrs. Bertha Palmer Thorne and Mr. Gordon Palmer, May 11–June 17, 1962, as The Inkwell, lent by Mrs. Bertha Palmer Thorne.
1963 Sarasota
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, Palmer Family Collection, February 23–March 24, 1963, no. 4, as The Inkwell.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 206, Private collection.
Published References
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 566, ill.
Notes

According to Rewald (1983, p. 231), "the round form to the left of the inkwell probably does not represent a fruit but a conical sieve with a small knob at its pointed bottom. The knob is visible next to the inkwell; the handle of this utensil (called 'chinois' by French cooks) extends to the left."

The legs of a plaster cast of a Cupid used as a prop in many works by the artist is seen at right.  

Nature morte avec encrier, 1900–04 (FWN 1964). Putto, copy after François Du Quesnoy (in Cézanne's time attributed to Pierre Puget), plaster cast, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Identical to the one which Cezanne had in his Les Lauves studio.
Putto, copy after François Du Quesnoy (in Cézanne's time attributed to Pierre Puget), plaster cast, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Identical to the one which Cezanne had in his Les Lauves studio.
Photo: Erik Cornelius; © Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Record last updated January 25, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Nature morte avec encrier, 1900–04 (FWN 1964)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1548 (accessed on May 16, 2024).