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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)
Christie's, New York

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Prince de Wagram (Alexandre Berthier), Paris
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Reid & Lefevre, London, and Knoedler, New York (1929)
Mr. and Mrs. Edsel B. Ford, Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan (1933);
Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan;
Christie's, New York, October 6, 2020, no. 13, ill.
Exhibition History
1929 New York
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.
1933c New York
Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, Water Colors by Cezanne, November 16–December 7, 1933, no. 20, as Still Life, lent by Wildenstein & Co.
1955d New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, XXVth Anniversary Exhibition, 1955.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 212, Private collection.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1146, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte au melon.
Art News 1938
The Art News (March 26, 1938), p. 144, ill.
Wilenski 1940
Wilenski, R.H. Modern French Painters. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940, fig. 48B.
Rubin 1977a
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 180.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 571, ill.
Cachin and Rishel 1995
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 2004
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 2008
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 140, fig. 99.
Mitchell 2009
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 May 2, 2024).