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 739
Pommes et biscuits
c.1877
Alternate titles: Apfel und Kuchen; Apples and Biscuits; Le Bataillon sacré, Pommes en bataille sur une table; Nature morte aux pommes et biscuits; Stilleben; Stilleben (Äpfel und Biskuits)
Rewald (327): c.1877; Venturi revised: c.1877; Venturi (212): c.1877; Gowing: 1877 (Burlington); Ratcliffe: c.1877
Oil on canvas
14 13/16 x 21 11/16 in. (37.5 x 55.2 cm)
Signed lower right in pale gray: P. Cezanne
Private collection, Argentina
Provenance
Exhibition History
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 18, ill.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 21, ill. lent by L. Benatov, Paris.
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, Cent chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art français, 1750-1950, May–September 1957, no. 9, ill., as Nature morte aux pommes et biscuits, c. 1877.
Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, Wegbereiter der modernen Malerei: Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Seurat, May 4–July 14, 1963, no. 7, pl. 65, as Stilleben (Äpfel und Biskuits), c. 1877, lent by Madame Bnatov, Paris.
Published References
Trublot, [P. Alexis]. "A Minuit: La Collection Murer." Le Cri du Peuple, October 21, 1887, no. 1, as Le Bataillon sacré, Pommes en bataille sur une table.
Duret, Théodore. "Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 5, no. 3 (1907), ill. p. 103, as Stilleben.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 17.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 212, ill. vol. II, as Pommes et biscuits.
Commandement en chef français en Allemagne. Répertoire des biens spoliés en France durant la guerre 1939-1945, tome II, tableaux - tapisseries - sculpture (List of Property removed from France during the war 1939-1945, Volume 2, paintings, tapestries and sculpture). G. Glasser, directeur des réparations et restitutions. Berlin, 1947, p. 227, no. 5054, 34.572 , ill. p. 244 o, as Pommes et biscuits, 37 x 55cm, Jean Bernheim Jeune.
Gachet, Paul. Deux amis des impressionnistes: le Docteur Gachet et Murer. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1956, p. 171.
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 188.
Schapiro, Meyer. "The Apples of Cézanne: An Essay on the Meaning of Still-Life." Art News Annual 34 (1968), p. 44.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 327, ill. vol. 2, as Pommes et biscuits.
Masurovsky, Marc. "Josse et Gaston Bernheim: dans la tourmente des zones occupées." In Œuvres volées, destins brisés: l’histoire des collections juives pillées par les nazis. [Issy-les-Moulineaux]: Beaux Arts-TTM, 2013, ill. (erroneously FWN 773) p. 20, as Pommes et biscuits.
Kalter-Wasserman, Sasha. "The Power to Astonish in Paul Cézanne's Still Life: Flask, Glass, and Jug." In Thannhauser Collection: French Modernism at the Guggenheim, Fontanella, Megan. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publication, 2018, p. 57, fig. 4.5, as Apples and Biscuits.
Kalter-Wasserman, Sasha. "Le pouvoir d'étonner: Fiasque, verre et poterie de Paul Cézanne." In Chefs-d'oeuvre du Guggenheim: de Manet à Picasso, la collection Thannhauser. Paris: Culturespace, Edition Hazan, 2019. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 27, as Pommes et biscuits.
Record last updated March 28, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Pommes et biscuits, c.1877 (FWN 739)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=322 (accessed on April 23, 2024).
