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Catalogue entry

Bob Hashimoto; © The Art Institute of Chicago
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
The Art Institute of Chicago (Gift of Kate L. Brewster) (1949.512)

Keywords

Provenance
Eugène Murer, Auvers-sur-Oise and Paris
Moderne Galerie [Heinrich Thannhauser], Munich
Fritz Schoen, Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (Sept. 29, 1925)
Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne (Feb. 2, 1926)
Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York.
Walter S. Brewster, Chicago (Feb. 15, 1930);
The Art Institute of Chicago (1949).
Exhibition History
1927c Berlin
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.
1933a Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, The Walter S. Brewster Collection, 1933, no. 6.
1936f New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Chardin and the Modern Still Life, November 1936, no. 12.
1952 New York
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cézanne: Rarely Shown Works, November 10–29, 1952, no. 4, ill. lent by Art Institute of Chicago.
1953 Aix-en-Provence and traveling
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.
1959 Worcester
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, The Dial and the Dial Collection, April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 10.
1977–78 Memphis
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.
1998–99 Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 9, ill., as Le Plat de pommes.
2005–06 New York and traveling
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).
2008 Fort Worth
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.
2011–12 Paris
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.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 33, ill. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Trublot 1887
Trublot, [P. Alexis]. "A Minuit: La Collection Murer." Le Cri du Peuple, October 21, 1887, no. 7.
Moderne Galerie Thannhauser 1916
Katalog der Modernen Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, München. Munich: Moderne Galerie Tannhauser, 1916, listed p. XXIX, ill. pl. 30, as Früchte Stilleben.
The Dial 1926
The Dial 81 (November 1926), p. 359, ill.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 76, as Stilleben.
D'Ors 1930
Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, 1930, pl. 23.
Di San Lazzaro 1936
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 30.
D'Ors 1936a
Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. New York: E. Weyhe, 1936, pl. 30.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 210, ill. vol. II, as Le Plat de pommes.
Goldwater 1938
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 1950
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.
Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, p. 123.
Gachet 1956
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 1956
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 188.
Art Institute of Chicago 1961
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 1965
Badt, Kurt. The Art of Cézanne. Translated by Sheila Ann Ogilvie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965, p. 160.
Shiff 1978
Shiff, Richard. "Seeing Cézanne." Critical Inquiry 4, no. 4 (Summer 1978), fig. 12.
Shiff 1984
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 1996
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 2009
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 2011
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 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 195, pl. 86.
Coutagne 2013a
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 2014
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 2018
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 2019
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 2021
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 et al 2022
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 April 26, 2024).