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746
Le Buffet
1877–79
Alternate titles: Buffet avec Fruits et Gateaux; Il "Buffet"; Le Buffet (nature morte); Still Life; Stilleben; Stilleben Buffet; The Buffet
Rewald: (338) 1877–79; Venturi: (208) 1873–77; Venturi revised: c.1877; Cézanne fils: L'Estaque 1883; Rivière: 1881
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 7/8 in. (65 x 81 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3477, huile; un buffet dont la tablette basse est couverte d'une nappe avec des fruits et d'une assiette de biscuits; la tablette supérieure soutient des tasses et un sucrier, 65 x 81 cm (200 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4355, nature morte; buffet, pommes, et nape [sic], 65 x 81 cm (2000 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 311 and [66b], Annotated by Cézanne's son: L'Estaque 1883

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Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Baron Denys Cochin, Paris
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (Oct. 20, 1904)
Marczell de Nemes, Budapest (Sept. 20, 1909);
Nemes Collection, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, June 18, 1913, no. 86, ill.
Baron Mór Lipót Herzog, Budapest (1913)
Baron Ferenc Hatvany, Budapest (Mar. 1917);
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Exhibition History

1899b Paris: Galerie Vollard, Paul Cézanne, no. 33, Buffet avec Fruits et Gateaux.
1906b Paris: Grand Palais, Salon d'Automne, 4e Exposition, no. 320, Le Buffet (nature morte), lent by Vollard.
1907 Budapest: Nemzeti Salon, Gauguin, Cézanne, et al, no. 82, lent by Vollard.
1907b Vienna: Galerie Miethke, Paul Gauguin and Others, no. 94, Stilleben Buffet, lent by Vollard.
1909b Berlin: Paul Cassirer, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, no. 39, Stilleben, lent by private collector [Nemes].
1910b Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, [Nemes Collection], no. 72, Still Life.
1912 Düsseldorf: Städtische Kunsthalle, Sammlung Marczell von Nemes, Budapest, no. 115, ill.
1948 Venice: Biennale Internationale d'Arte, Gli Impressionisti alla XXIV Biennale di Venezia, no. 42, ill, Il "Buffet", lent by Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
1956 Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, Maîtres étrangers des XIXe et XXe siècles, no. 14, pl. 5.
1965 Budapest: Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Francia festők: Delacroix-tól Picassóig (Prága-Berlin-Budapest), listed p. 10 [no. 11], ill.
1965 Prague and traveling: Národní galerie v Praze – Sternberg Palace, Prague, Francouzské malířstvi od Delacroix k Picassovi, no. 47, ill, cover (detail).
1984 Madrid: Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Paul Cézanne, no. 15.
2000 Vienna and traveling: Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, no. 41, ill, Le Buffet, shown in Vienna only.
2008 Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Art, Cézanne and Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, no. 9, ill, p. 51, Le Buffet, lent by Szépmüvészeti Museum, Budapest.
2008–09 Yokohama and traveling: Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Homage to Cézanne: His Influence on the Development of Twentieth Century Painting, no. 9, ill, p. 51, Le Buffet.
2009 Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, Picasso, Cézanne, no. 85, ill, p. 186 (dated 1880), Le Buffet.
2012–13 Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, no. 96, ill.
2013–14 Rome: Complesso dei Vittoriano, Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900, no. 7, ill.
2014a Madrid: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Cézanne: Site/Non-site, no. 29, ill.
2014–15 Philadelphia and traveling: Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pa, The World is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne, pl. 11, p. 89.
2016 Paris: Musée du Luxembourg, Chefs-d'oeuvre de Budapest, no. 66, ill.
2017–18 Karlsruhe: Staatliche Kunsthalle, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, no. 13, ill.

Published References

Von Térey 1911: "Die Sammlung Marcell von Nemes in Budapest," p. 224, ill.
Petrovics 1919: "As Orszagos Magyar Szepmuveszeti Muzeum Evkonyvei"
Lehel 1923: Cézanne, fig. 15.
Rivière 1923: Le Maître Paul Cézanne, p. 209, listed.
Venturi 1936b: Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre, no. 208, ill. vol. II, Le Buffet.
Cogniat 1939a: Cézanne, pl. 46.
Dorival 1948: Cézanne, pl. 39.
Raynal 1954: Cézanne, p. 44, ill.
Erpel 1958: Paul Cézanne, p. 19, ill.
Feist 1963: Paul Cézanne, pp. 25, 52, pl. 9.
Genthon 1964: Du romantisme au post-impressionnisme: Tableaux français en Hongrie: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Budapest, pls. 39–40.
Gerloti 1966: "L'Ancienne Collection François de Hatvany," p. 365, fig. 14.
Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) 1969: Guide to the Collections, p. 62, ill.
Bernard 1986: The Impressionist Revolution, p. 246, ill.
Kendall 1988: Cézanne: By Himself, p. 95, ill.
Rewald 1996: The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols., no. 338, ill. vol. 2, Le Buffet.
Natter 2003: Die Galerie Miethke: Eine Kunsthandlung im Zentrum der Moderne, p. 158, ill.
Fraisset 2011a: "La vite silenziose di Cézanne," p. 63, fig. 37.
Molnos 2012: "The Works of Paul Cézanne in Hungarian Private Collections," p. 204, cat. 96, ill. (detail), The Buffet.
Geskó 2012a: "'Builderly' Painting: The Making of an Exhibition," p. 21, cat. 96, ill, The Buffet.
Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2013b: Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1908-1910 «Ganz eigenartige neue Werte», Vol. 4, p. 293, ill.
Brettell 2014: "Exhibition review: The World is an Apple," Fig. 75.
Eiling 2017: "Cézanne's Metamorphoses," fig. 18.
Page citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Le Buffet, 1877–79 (cat. no. 746)." The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=334 (accessed August 18, 2018).
Record last updated January 11, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.