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 778
Pommes et serviette
1879–80
Alternate titles: Les pommes; Les Pommes sur la table; Nature morte; Nature morte. Pommes-Serviette; Pommes
Rewald (417): 1879–80; Venturi revised: 1879–82; Venturi (346): 1879–82; Gowing: 1877 (Burlington); Ratcliffe: probably March 1879
Oil on canvas
19 3/8 x 23 11/16 in. (49.2 x 60.3 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 220, Annotated: 1877
Provenance
Private collection
Exhibition History
Offices of the Toison d'Or [Zolotoe Runo], Moscow, Salon de La Toison d'Or, April 11–May 24, 1908, no. 16, ill., as Nature morte, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 26, as Nature morte. Pommes-Serviette, lent by Blot, according to the catalogue, but Dauberville 2020, says that this was work was exhibited as no. 26 and owned by Gaston Bernheim-Jeune.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Essai d'une collection, June 2–20, 1922, n.n. information comes from Dauberville 2020.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, no. 22, as Pommes et serviette.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 36, as Les Pommes sur la table, lent by Gaston B. de V.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Works of Art from the Collections of the Harvard Class of 1936, June 11–August 25, 1961, no. 9.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 25. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 81, ill., as Pommes et serviette, lent by Seiji Togo Memorial Yasuda Kasai Museum of Art, Tokyo. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Homage to Cézanne: His Influence on the Development of Twentieth Century Painting, November 15, 2008–January 25, 2009, no. 117, ill., as Pommes et serviette, lent by Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art. Traveled to: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, February 7–April 12, 2009.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 75, ill.
Published References
Morice, Charles. "Nouvelles tendances de l'art français." La Toison d'Or (April 1908), ill. opp. p. 52.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 19.
Dormoy, Marie, translated by Margarete Mauthner. "Die Cézanne - Ausstellung bei Bernheim-Jeune." Kunst und Künstler 24, no. 11 (1926), p. 448.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 346, ill. vol. II, as Les pommes.
Bernheim de Villers, Gaston. Petites Histoires sur de grands artistes. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1940, ill.
Bernheim de Villers, Gaston. Little Tales of Great Artists. New York: E. Weyhe, 1949, ill.
Bernheim de Villers, Gaston. Un ami de Cézanne. Paris: Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1954, pl. [5], as Pommes.
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne, Tanguy, Choquet [sic]." The Art Bulletin 49, no. 2 (June 1967), p. 139.
Bodelsen, Merete. "Early Impressionist Sales 1874–94 in the light of some unpublished 'procès-verbaux.'" The Burlington Magazine 110, no. 783 (June 1968), p. 345 and procès verbal no. 32 (Duret sale).
Potter, Margaret. The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection. New York: [privately published], 1984, pp. 159–61, 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. 417, ill. vol. 2, as Pommes et serviette.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 50, ill. photograph of painting in the residence of Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune at 107 avenue Henri Martin, p. 7.
Record last updated April 25, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Pommes et serviette, 1879–80 (FWN 778)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=410 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
