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 740
Le Plat de pommes
c.1877
Alternate titles: Früchte Stilleben; Still Life; Stilleben; The Plate of Apples
Rewald (328): c.1877; Venturi revised: c.1877; Venturi (210): c.1877; Cooper: 1877 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
18 x 21 1/2 in. (45.8 x 54.7 cm)
Signed lower right in blue: P. Cezanne
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Thannhauser, Vereinshaus der Berliner Künstler, Berlin, Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin, January 9–mid-February, 1927, no. 14, ill., as Stilleben, lent by Private collection.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Chardin and the Modern Still Life, November 1936, no. 12.
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cézanne: Rarely Shown Works, November 10–29, 1952, no. 4, ill. lent by Art Institute of Chicago.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 4–August 4, 1953, no. 21, lent by Art Institute of Chicago. Traveled to: Musée Masséna, Nice, France, August 8–September 12, 1953; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, September 15–October 18, 1953.
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, The Dial and the Dial Collection, April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 10.
Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, Impressionists in 1877, December 4, 1977–January 8, 1978, no. 8, ill., as The Plate of Apples, c. 1877, lent by Art Institute of Chicago.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 9, ill., as Le Plat de pommes.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 25, ill., p. 113 (dated c. 1874), as Le Plat de pommes. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, October 20, 2005–January 16, 2006; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, February 27–May 28, 2006 (Cézanne et Pissarro 1865-1885).
Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, no. 34, ill.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 55, ill., p. 116, as Le Plat de pommes, lent by The Art Institute of Chicago.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 33, ill. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Trublot, [P. Alexis]. "A Minuit: La Collection Murer." Le Cri du Peuple, October 21, 1887, no. 7.
Katalog der Modernen Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, München. Munich: Moderne Galerie Tannhauser, 1916, listed p. XXIX, ill. pl. 30, as Früchte Stilleben.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 76, as Stilleben.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 30.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 210, ill. vol. II, as Le Plat de pommes.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 158, ill.
Rich, Daniel Catton. "The Kate L. Brewster Bequest." Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 44, no. 3 (September 15, 1950), p. 51, as Still Life.
Gachet, Paul. Deux amis des impressionnistes: le Docteur Gachet et Murer. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1956, p. 171 (reprint of article by Alexis).
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 188.
Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961, p. 71, as The Plate of Apples.
Badt, Kurt. The Art of Cézanne. Translated by Sheila Ann Ogilvie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965, p. 160.
Shiff, Richard. Cézanne and the end of Impressionism: a study of the theory, technique, and a critical evaluation of modern art. Chicago; London: The Univesity of Chicago Press, 1984, p. 208, fig. 48, as The Plate of Apples, c. 1877-78.
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. 328, ill. vol. 2, as Le Plat de pommes.
Storr, Robert. "La Famille Cézanne." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 48, fig. 2.4, as The Plate of Apples.
Leca, Benedict. "Le Monde est une pomme: nature mortes et portraits parisiens de Cézanne." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 116, ill., as Le Plat de pommes.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 195, pl. 86.
Coutagne, Denis. "Courbet/Cézanne, La vérité en peinture." In Courbet/Cézanne, La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 29, fig. 3.
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's Color Lab: Not-So-Still-Life." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 108, fig. 6, as The Plate of Apples.
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. 4.6, as The Plate of Apples.
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. 28, as Le Plat de pommes.
Smith, Paul. "Cezanne's Non-Constructive Line." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 5.
Muir, Kimberly, Kristi Dahm, Giovanni Verri, Maria Kokkori, and Clara Granzotto. "'A Harmony Parallel to Nature' – Color, Form, and Space in Cezanne's Watercolors and Oil Paintings." In Cezanne. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022, p. 53, fig. 8.
Record last updated February 8, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Plat de pommes, c.1877 (FWN 740)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=324 (accessed on December 8, 2024).