Catalogue entry

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)

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, U.K. Lent by the Provost and Fellows of King's College (Keynes collection)

Keywords

Still-life objects
Edibles and Flowers:
- apple(s) / pomme(s) »
Technique and Condition:
- parallel brush strokes »

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris.

Edgar Degas, Paris (Nov. 29, 1895);

Degas Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, Mar. 26–27, 1918, no. 10, ill.

J. Maynard Keynes, London;

Lady Keynes, London;

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

Exhibition History

1895 Paris

Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.

1922 London

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.

1937a London

Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June 1937, no. 7, as Pommes, dated 1873–77, lent by J. Maynard Keynes.

1942–43 London

National Gallery, London, Nineteenth Century French Painting, December 11, 1942–January 17, 1943, no. 28, as Pommes, c. 1875, lent by Lord Keynes.

1954 Edinburgh and traveling

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.

1995–96 Paris and traveling

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.

1997–98 New York

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.

1999–2000 London

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.

2006–07 London

National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 18, ill., as Apples.

2021a New York

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.

2022–23 Chicago and traveling

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 3, ill. shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.

Published References

Natanson 1895

Natanson, Thadée. "Paul Cézanne." La Revue Blanche 9, no. 50 (December 1, 1895), p. 500.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 190, ill. vol. II, as Pommes.

Fry 1972

Fry, Roger. Letters of Roger Fry. London: Chatto and Windus, 1972, p. 426.

Woolf 1976

Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf, vol. II. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976, p. 230.

Pickvance and Takumi 1986

Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 39, pl. 12.

Kendall 1988

Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 99, ill.

Rewald 1989

Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 44, fig. 18.

Verdi 1992

Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 83, fig. 69.

Kitschen 1995

Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 26.

Dumas 1996

Dumas, Ann. Degas as a Collector. London: Apollo Magazine Ltd., 1996, fig. 53, ill.

Rewald 1996

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 et al 1997

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 2000

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.

Lewis 2000

Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, pp. 190-92, fig. 119.

Armstrong 2004

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.

Schmidt 2004a

Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 53.

Pissarro 2006

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 2006

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 2014

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 2015

Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 262, fig. 187.

Armstrong 2018

Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 21.

Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021

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 and Haddad 2022

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 2022

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 April 19, 2024).