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 1979
Pommes, bouteille et dossier de chaise
1904–06
Alternate titles: Apples, Bottle and Chairback; Apples, Bottle and Chairback (Pommes, Bouteille, Dossier de Chaise); Apples, Bottle, Chair Back; Fruit; Nature morte avec pommes, bouteille, verre et chaise; Pommes, bouteille, dossier de chaise; Still Life; Still Life with Apples and Chair Back; Still Life, with a Chair, Bottles and Apples; Still life: apples, bottle and chair back; Still-life with Apples, Bottle and Chairback; Stilleben mit Äpfeln, Flasche und Stuhllehne (Nature morte avec pommes, bouteille, dossier de chaise)
Rewald (W643); Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi (1155): 1904–06; Cooper: c.1905
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper
Watermark: ANCNE MANUFRE CANSON et MONTGOLFIER VIDALON LES ANNONAY
17 1/2 x 23 1/4 in. (44.5 x 59 cm)
Vollard W stockbook: no. 2855, nature morte; aquarelle, 44 x 59 (12,000)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Eighth Exhibition of Watercolors and Pastels, 1930.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 55, as Fruit, lent by Wildenstein, NY.
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Cézanne and Gauguin, November 1–December 13, 1936, no. 30.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 73, ill., as Still Life, c. 1906, lent by Samuel Courtauld.
Tate Gallery, London, Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours, opening on April 10, 1946, no. 56 [supplement to catalogue], as Still Life, 1904-1906. Traveled to: Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom, May–June 1946; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 1946.
Tate Gallery, London, Samuel Courtauld: Memorial Exhibition, May–June 1948, no. 86, as Still Life, with a Chair, Bottles and Apples, c. 1903-06.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Impressionnistes de la Collection Courtauld de Londres, October 1955, no. 72, pl. 45, as Pommes, bouteille, dossier de chaise, c. 1905.
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Drawings and Engravings from the Courtauld Collection, 1959–60.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 81, pl. 44, c. 1900-1906.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition Cézanne: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 1–August 15, 1961, no. 38, ill., pl.22, as Nature morte avec pommes, bouteille, verre et chaise, 1902-1906, lent by Courtauld Institute, London.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 98, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 170, as Still life: apples, bottle and chair back, lent by Courtauld Institute of Art; shown in London only. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, French Paintings from the Courtauld Collection, 1976.
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Samuel Courtauld's Collection of French 19th Century Paintings and Drawings, 1976, no. 64.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 77, ill., pl. 184, as Apples, Bottle, Chair Back, 1902-06, lent by Courtauld Institue Galleries, London. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 34, ill. in b/w, as Pommes, bouteille, dossier de chaise, 1902-06, lent by Courtauld Institute, London.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 93, ill., as Stilleben mit Äpfeln, Flasche und Stuhllehne (Nature morte avec pommes, bouteille, dossier de chaise), 1902-06, lent by Courtauld Institute Galleries, London. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
British Museum, London, Mantegna to Cézanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, 1983, no. 102, ill., as Still-life with Apples, Bottle and Chairback.
The Courtauld Gallery, London, Art Made Modern: Roger Fry's Vision of Art, October 15, 1999–January 23, 2000, no. 34, as Apples, Bottle and Chairback, c. 1900-06.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolor, October 12, 2004–January 2, 2005, pl. 7, as Still Life with Apples and Chair Back.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 40, ill., as Apples, Bottle and Chairback (Pommes, Bouteille, Dossier de Chaise).
The Courtauld Gallery, London, The Courtauld Cézannes, June 26–October 5, 2008, no. 17, pp. 132-37, ill. in color p. 135, digital infrared reflectogram p. 134, as Pommes, bouteille et dossier de chaise, c. 1904-06.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, La Collection Courtauld: le parti de l'impressionnsime, February 20–June 17, 2019. (Exhibition catalogue: Serres et al 2019), no. 44, ill., as Pommes, bouteille et dossier de chaise.
Published References
Loran, Erle. "Cézanne at the Pennsylvania Museum." The American Magazine of Art 28, no. 2 (February 1935), p. 86, ill.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, pl. 34.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1155, ill. vol. II, as Pommes, bouteille et dossier de chaise.
Cooper, Douglas. The Courtauld Collection. London: Athlone Press, 1954, no. 111, pl. 13.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, (detail used as back endpaper).
Wechsler, Judith, ed. Cézanne in Perspective. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1975, fig. 19.
Hughes, Robert. The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1980, pl. 80.
Dittmann, Lorenz. "Morandi and Cézanne." In Giorgio Morandi. Munich, 1981, p. 39, fig. 4.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 53.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 643, ill.
Baron, Jean-Marie and Pascal Bonafoux. Cézanne: Les Natures Mortes. Paris: Editions Herscher, 1993, p. 11, ill.
Neilson, Brett. "Visioni dal vortice. L'emergere dello spazio sociale in Cézanne e Wyndham Lewis." In Il Cézanne degli scrittori dei poeti e dei filosofi / a cura di Giovanni Cianci, Elio Franzini e Antonello Negri. Milan: Bocca, 2001, p. 174, fig. 26, ill. in b/w, as Pommes, bouteille et dossier de chaise.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 620, no. 1480, ill. in color, as Pommes, bouteille et dossier de chaise, c. 1904-1906.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 304, fig. 220.
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 34.
Record last updated February 20, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Pommes, bouteille et dossier de chaise, 1904–06 (FWN 1979)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1626 (accessed on April 18, 2024).
