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 1941
Nature morte: "pain sans mie"
c.1887–90
Alternate titles: "Pain sans Mie"; Nature morte; Nature-morte (Pain sans mie); Still Life: Pain sans mie; Stilleben
Venturi (1493): 1894; Chappuis (957): 1887–90
Graphite on paper
12 1/2 x 19 3/8 in. (31.8 x 49.2 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection (1981)
Exhibition History
Matthiesen Gallery, London, A Century of French Drawings: from Prud'hon to Picasso, May 3–31, 1938, no. 17, as Nature morte, 1894, lent by Kenneth Clark.
Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, Französische Zeichnungen von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, February 1–16, 1958, no. 183, as Stilleben, lent by Sir Kenneth Clark, London. Traveled to: Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, March 22–May 5, 1958; Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany, May 10–June 7, 1958.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 78, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 109, ill. in color, p. 290, as Nature morte: "pain sans mie", 1887-1890, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Neue Galerie, New York, The Ronald S. Lauder Collection: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century, October 27, 2011–April 2, 2012, p. 329, pl. 173.
Tate, London, Kenneth Clark Looking for Civilisation, May 19–August 10, 2014, no. 47, p. 70, pl. 46.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 194, Private collection.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1493, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne Drawings." Review of Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle, by Adrien Chappuis. The Burlington Magazine 105, no. 725 (August 1963), p. 376.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 957, ill., as Still Life: Pain sans mie.
Clark, Kenneth. "Book Reviews: The Enigma of Cézanne." Apollo (London) 100, no. 149 (July 1974), fig. 1 p. 79, as Nature-morte (Pain sans mie).
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 108, ill., as Nature morte: "pain sans mie", 1887-90.
Pissarro, Joachim. Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–85. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 59, fig. 58.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 294; vol. 2, p. 191, as "Pain sans Mie".
Record last updated September 21, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Nature morte: "pain sans mie", c.1887–90 (FWN 1941)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2642 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
