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 756
Cinq pommes
1877–78
Alternate titles: Apples; Five Apples; Les cinq pommes; Pommes
Rewald (334): 1877–78; Venturi revised: 1873–77; Venturi (191): 1873–77
Oil on canvas
5 x 10 in. (12.7 x 25.5 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection
Exhibition History
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 5, ill. lent by Weeks.
A. Seligman-Helft Galleries, New York, French Still-Life from Chardin to Cézanne, October 29–November 22, 1947, no. 7, lent by Mr. Carl Weeks.
Department of Art, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Prints from Twenty-Three Iowa Collections, May 9–August 6, 1961, no. 19.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family, December 19, 1970–March 1, 1971, p. 155, pl. 19 (dated 1873–77), lent by Eugene Thaw. Traveled to: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, April 4–June 14, 1971; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Frnacisco, California, September 9–October 31, 1971.
Morgan Library & Museum, New York, Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw, Part II, September 3–November 10, 1985, no. 8 of Check List, as Apples. Traveled to: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, February 17–April 13, 1985.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 13, ill., as Cinq pommes, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Thaw. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 5, ill.
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 8, ill. p. 295, as Cinq pommes, lent by Eugene V. Thaw.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 168, p. 458, as Cinq pommes, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw.
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, Cézanne and American Modernism, September 13, 2009–January 3, 2010, no. 2, ill., p. 144, as Cinq pommes, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, February 14–May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, June 26–September 26, 2010.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, May 21–September 6, 2011, pl. 49, cat. 7 (Stein coll.), as Five Apples, 1877-78, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. Traveled to: Grand Palais, Paris, October 5, 2011–January 16, 2012 (see Paris 2011-12a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 21–June 3, 2012.
Grand Palais, Paris, Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso ... L'aventure des Stein, October 5, 2011–January 16, 2012, no. 34, ill., as Cinq pommes, 1877-1878, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 62, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 191, ill. vol. II, as Pommes.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 31.
Mellow, James R. Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company. New York: Praeger, 1974, p. 207.
Rewald, John. "Some Entries for a New Catalogue Raisonné of Cézanne's Paintings." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 86, periode 6 (November 1975), pp. 162–63, ill., as Cinq pommes.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 40, pl. 13.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 56, 57, 248, 256, 261, note 34, fig. 35.
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 24.
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. 334, ill. vol. 2, as Cinq pommes.
Baumann, Felix A., ed. Cézanne—Aufbruch in die Moderne. Essen: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 82, ill., as Cinq pommes.
Sachs, Katherine. "Cézanne and Kelly: Painting Form through Color." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 458, pl. 168, as Five Apples.
Shiff, Richard. "Lucky Cézanne (Cézanne Tychique)." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 90, ill., p. 458, pl. 168, as Five Apples.
Dachy, Marc. "L'art moderne, un passion naissante: Une incroyable collection d'avant-garde." Beaux-arts magazine (Paris) hors-serie (November 2, 2011), p. 18, as Les cinq pommes.
Parker, Robert McD. "Catalogue of the Stein Collections." In The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avent-Garde, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 395, no. 7, pl. 49, as Five Apples.
Warman, Jayne. "Cézanne peintre des peintres." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 169, fig. 88, as Cinq pommes.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 107, fig. 2, as Five Apples.
Aebi, Kiko and Abed Haddad. "Cut from the same cloth: a composite canvas by Paul Cezanne." The Burlington Magazine 164 (December 2022), fig. 9.
Notes
The American artist, Morgan Russell borrowed this painting from the Gertrude and Leo Stein and made a still life based on this work.
When Leo and Gertrude divided their collection in 1914, Leo succeeded in claiming this still life for himself. Gertrude was distraught. According to Alice Toklas, Picasso made a watercolor of a single apple to console her and inscribed it on the verso: Souvenir pour Gertrude and Alice/ Picasso/ Noel 1914. (See D. Aimé-Azan, "Alice Toklas et las collection Gertrude Stein," Jardin des arts, March 1868, pp. 46, 51).
The French painter Maxime Maufra bought the still life from Vollard in April 1896 and seems to have made a faithful copy of it. The whereabouts of that work is unknown.
Morgan Russell, Three Apples, 1910. Museum of Modern Art, NY
Record last updated January 16, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Cinq pommes, 1877–78 (FWN 756)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=330 (accessed on April 24, 2024).
