The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
Catalogue entry
FWN 746
Le Buffet
1877–79
Alternate titles: Buffet; Buffet avec Fruits et Gateaux; Das Büffet; Il "Buffet"; Le Buffet (nature morte); Still Life; Stilleben; Stilleben Buffet; The Buffet
Rewald: (338) 1877–79; Venturi revised: c.1877; Cézanne fils: L'Estaque 1883; Venturi: (208) 1873–77; 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 Cezanne's son: L'Estaque 1883
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 15–December 1899 (exhibition catalogue), no. 33, as Buffet avec Fruits et Gateaux.
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, 4e exposition, October 6–November 15, 1906 (exhibition catalogue), no. 320, as Le Buffet (nature morte), lent by Vollard.
Galerie Miethke, Vienna, Paul Gauguin and Others, March–April 1907. Besides Gauguin, works by Cézanne, Bernard, Denis Marquet, Matisse, Puy, Seurat, Signac, Valtat and van Rysselberghe were shown. All were for sale, no. 94, as Stilleben Buffet, lent by Vollard.
Nemzeti Salon, Budapest, Hungary, Gauguin, Cézanne, et al, May, 1907, no. 82, lent by Vollard.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, November 17–December 12, 1909. A group exhibition with a large section on Cezanne. (exhibition catalogue), no. 39, as Stilleben, lent by Private collection [Nemes].
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, [Nemes Collection], November, 1910. Exhibition catalogue in Hungarian, no. 72, as Still Life.
Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany, Sammlung Marczell von Nemes, Budapest, Summer 1912, no. 115, ill.
Biennale Internationale d'Arte, Venice, Italy, Gli Impressionisti alla XXIV Biennale di Venezia, May 29–September 30, 1948 (exhibition catalogue; introduction by Lionello Venturi, text by Rodolfo Pallucchini), no. 42, ill., as Il "Buffet", c. 1873–77, lent by Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Maîtres étrangers des XIXe et XXe siècles, 1956 (exhibition catalogue), no. 14, pl. 5.
Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Von Delacroix bis Picasso: ein Jahrhundert französischer Malerei, September–October 1965 (curated by Vera-Maria Ruthenberg; exhibition catalogue), listed p. 30, ill. in b/w p. 116, as Das Büffet, c. 1873-77.
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Francia festők: Delacroix-tól Picassóig (Prága-Berlin-Budapest), 1965 (exhibition catalogue), listed p. 10 [no. 11], ill.
Národní galerie v Praze – Sternberg Palace, Prague, Francouzské malířstvi od Delacroix k Picassovi, 1965 (exhibition catalogue), no. 47, ill., cover (detail).
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March–April 1984 (exhibition catalogue), no. 15.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000. English edition: Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished (exhibition catalogue), no. 41, ill., as Le Buffet, shown in Vienna only. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008 (exhibition catalogue by Felix A. Baumann and Poul Erik Tøjner), no. 9, ill. p. 51, as Le Buffet, lent by Szépmüvészeti Museum, Budapest.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Picasso, Cézanne, May 25–September 27, 2009 (exhibition catalogue), no. 85, ill., as Le Buffet, 1880.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013. Curated by Judit Geskó, no. 96, ill.
Complesso dei Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900, October 5, 2013–February 2, 2014. Curated by Maria Teresa Benedetti. (exhibition catalogue), no. 7, ill.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014 (exhibition catalogue; chronology by Paula Luengo). Curated by Guillermo Solana, no. 29, ill.
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, The World is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne, June 14–September 22, 2014 (exhibition catalogue). Curated by Benedict Leca, pl. 11, p. 89. Traveled to: Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, November 1, 2014–January 31, 2015.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvre de Budapest, March 9–July 10, 2016 (exhibition catalogue), no. 66, ill.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018 (exhibition catalogue edited by Alexander Eiling), no. 13, ill.
Published References
Von Térey, Gabriel. "Die Sammlung Marcell von Nemes in Budapest." Kunst und Künstler 9 (1911), p. 224, ill.
Petrovics, Elek. "As Orszagos Magyar Szepmuveszeti Muzeum Evkonyvei." Jahrbücher des Ungarischen Nationalen Museums der Schönen Künste.
Lehel, Ferenc. Cézanne. Budapest: Amicus Kiadasa, 1923, fig. 15.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 209, listed.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 208, ill. vol. II as Le Buffet.
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 46.
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Tisne, 1948, pl. 39.
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1954, p. 44, ill.
Erpel, Fritz. Paul Cézanne. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1958, p. 19, ill.
Modern külföldi képtár. Budapest: Múzeumok Központi Propaganda Irodája, 1959, p. 12, ill. as Buffet.
Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, pp. 25, 52, pl. 9.
Genthon, István. Du romantisme au post-impressionnisme: Tableaux français en Hongrie: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Budapest. Budapest: Editions Corvina, 1964, pls. 39–40.
Gerlötei, Eugène. "L'ancienne collection François de Hatvany." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 67, periode 6 (May–June 1966), p. 365, fig. 14 as Le Buffet, (with erroneous acquisition dates).
Guide to the Collections. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 1969, p. 62, ill.
Bernard, Bruce. The Impressionist Revolution. London: Orbis, 1986, p. 246, ill.
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 95, 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. 338, ill. vol. 2 as Le Buffet.
Natter, Tobias. Die Galerie Miethke: Eine Kunsthandlung im Zentrum der Moderne. Vienna: Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien, 2003. Exhibition catalogue, p. 158, ill.
Fraisset, Michel. "La vite silenziose di Cézanne." In Cézanne: les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 63, fig. 37.
Molnos, Péter. "The Works of Paul Cézanne in Hungarian Private Collections." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 204, cat. 96, ill. (detail) as The Buffet.
Geskó, Judit. "'Builderly' Painting: The Making of an Exhibition." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 21, cat. 96, ill. as The Buffet.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektion Paul Cézanne: 17. November bis 12. Dezember 1909." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1908-1910. vol. 4, "Ganz eigenartige neue Werte". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2013, p. 293, ill.
Brettell, Richard. "Exhibition review: The World is an Apple." Burlington 156, no. 1340 (November 2014), Fig. 75.
Eiling, Alexander. "Cézanne's Metamorphoses." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 18.
Record last updated March 28, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Le Buffet, 1877–79 (FWN 746)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=334 (accessed on April 19, 2019).