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 1971
Nature morte avec pot au lait, melon et sucrier
1900–06
Alternate titles: Nature morte au melon; Still life; Still Life with Milk Pot, Melon, and Sugar Bowl
Rewald (W571); Venturi revised: 1900–05; Venturi (1146): 1895–1900; Rivière: 1900
Graphite and watercolor on paper
19 x 24 1/2 in. (48.2 x 62.2 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 34, ill., as Still life, lent by M. Knoedler and Co.
Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, Water Colors by Cezanne, November 16–December 7, 1933, no. 20, as Still Life, lent by Wildenstein & Co.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, XXVth Anniversary Exhibition, 1955.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 212, Private collection.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 73, ill. Private collection. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1146, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte au melon.
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 180.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 571, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 461, fig. 1, as Nature morte avec pot au lait, melon et sucrier, 1900-1906.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 10, fig. 3, as Still Life with Milk Pot, Melon, and Sugar Bowl.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 140, fig. 99.
Mitchell, Mark D. "A New Tradition: Cézanne, Demuth, and the Invention of Modern Watercolor." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 281, fig. 10.2
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Record last updated November 1, 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 pot au lait, melon et sucrier, 1900–06 (FWN 1971)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1553 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
