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 761
Pommes sur une chaise
c.1878 (?)
Alternate titles: Apples on a Chair; Apples on a chair-seat; Still life Apples (Pommes sur une chaise)
Rewald (336): c.1878 (?); Venturi revised: 1873–77
Oil on canvas
9 1/8 x 15 5/8 in. (23.2 x 39.7 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3501, huile; [huit?] pommes sur une chaise renversée, 20 x 39 cm (75 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Cézanne, September 23–October 24, 1954, no. 16, ill., on catalogue cover, as Apples on a chair-seat, lent by Rhode Island School of Design.
Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, Raid the Icebox with Andy Warhol, October 29, 1969–January 4, 1970, no. 19, ill., pp. 22, 36. Traveled to: Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, January 17–February 15, 1970; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, April 23–June 30, 1970.
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, Selections from the Collection of the Museum of Art, RISD, 1974–76.
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, The World is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne, June 14–September 22, 2014, pl. 13, p. 157. Traveled to: Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, November 1, 2014–January 31, 2015.
Published References
Rosenfeld, Daniel. European Paintings and Sculpture, ca. 1770–1937, in the Museum of Art. Providence: Rhode Island School of Design, 1991, p. 32, p. 219, ill.
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. 336, ill. vol. 2, as Pommes sur une chaise.
Leca, Benedict. "'The Painter of Apples': Cézanne, Still Life, and Self-Fashioning." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 51, fig. 6, as Still life Apples (Pommes sur une chaise).
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. 114, fig. 4, as Apples on a Chair.
Record last updated October 28, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Pommes sur une chaise, c.1878 (?) (FWN 761)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=332 (accessed on December 11, 2024).