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 760
Pommes
c.1878
Alternate titles: Apples; Seven apples; Still Life with Apples
Rewald (346): c.1878; Venturi revised: 1873–77; Venturi (190): 1873–77; Gowing: c.1878 (Edinburgh)
Oil on canvas
7 1/2 x 10 5/8 in. (19 x 27 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, Pictures, Drawings, and Sculptures of the French School of the Last 100 Years, Spring 1922, no. 36, as Apples, lent by J.M. Keynes.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June 1937, no. 7, as Pommes, dated 1873–77, lent by J. Maynard Keynes.
National Gallery, London, Nineteenth Century French Painting, December 11, 1942–January 17, 1943, no. 28, as Pommes, c. 1875, lent by Lord Keynes.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 20, as Pommes, lent by Lady Keynes. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 49, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, October 1, 1997–February 11, 1998, no. 109, not in the show.
The Courtauld Gallery, London, Art Made Modern: Roger Fry's Vision of Art, October 15, 1999–January 23, 2000, no. 25, fig. 87 p. 145, as Apples, c. 1877-78.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 18, ill., as Apples.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 243 (reconstructed image with FWN 779 [pl. 244], p. 199), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 3, ill. shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Natanson, Thadée. "Paul Cézanne." La Revue Blanche 9, no. 50 (December 1, 1895), p. 500.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 190, ill. vol. II, as Pommes.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf, vol. II. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976, p. 230.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 39, pl. 12.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 44, fig. 18.
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 26.
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. 346, ill. vol. 2, as Pommes.
Ives, Colta, Susan Stein, Julie Steiner with Ann Dumas, Rebecca Rabinow and Gary Tinterow. The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, A Summary Catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. Exhibition catalogue, p. 16, no. 109, ill.
Kitschen, Friederike. "Malen, Sehen, Denken, Fühlen - Cézannes Stilleben." In Cézanne Manet Schuch: drei Wege zur autonomen Kunst. Munich: Hirmer, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 6, erroneously as Private collection, New York.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 51, fig. 20, as Still Life with Apples, c. 1877-78.
Pissarro, Joachim. Cézanne/Pissarro, Johns/Rauschenberg: Comparative Studies on Intersubjectivity in Modern Art. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, fig. 34 p. 186, as Pommes.
Shiff, Richard. "Cézanne in the Wild." The Burlington Magazine 148, no.1242 (September 2006), p. 609, fig. 27, as Seven apples, c. 1877-78.
Shiff, Richard. "Morality, Materiality, Apples." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 175, fig. 11, as Apples.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 262, fig. 187.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 21.
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. 3, as Still Life with Apples.
Aebi, Kiko and Abed Haddad. "Cut from the same cloth: a composite canvas by Paul Cezanne." The Burlington Magazine 164 (December 2022), figs. 1, 5 (reconstructed with FWN 779), 6 (x-radiograph), 7 (pigment analysis), as Still Life with Apples.
Haskell, Caitlin. "Cezanne's Refusal." In Cezanne. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022, p. 39, fig. 4 (composite image with FWN 779).
Notes
This still life was purchased by Edgar Degas from Vollard's 1895 Cézanne retrospective. Thadée Natanson, who reviewed the exhibition in La Revue Blanche, may have been thinking of this painting when he wrote: "[Cézanne] is and remains the painter of apples, smooth, round, fresh, weighty, bursting apples from which color flows, not those one would like to eat or that trompe l'oeil makes appealing to the gourmand, but with ravishing forms. It is he who has given them shining dresses of red and yellow, who has made tiles of reflecting light on their skins, who has encompassed in a loving stroke their rotundity, and has created from them a delicious, definitive image."
Proposed reconstruction – see MoMA 2021, p. 199
Record last updated June 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Pommes, c.1878 (FWN 760)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=342 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
