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Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

Provenance
Théodore Duret, Paris;
Duret Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, Mar. 19, 1894, no. 4
Abbé Gaugain, Paris;
M. G[augain] Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 6, 1901, no. 2
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris
Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Paris;
Gaston Bernheim de Villers, Paris
Sam Salz, New York
Mr. and Mrs. William Burden, New York;
Sale for the Benefit of MoMA, New York, Parke-Bernet, New York, Apr. 27, 1960, no. 30, ill.
David and Peggy Rockefeller, New York;
Sotheby's, New York, Nov. 5, 1981, no. 189, ill.
Private collection
Christie's, London, Nov. 27, 1989, no. 14, ill.
Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo
Exhibition History
1908 Moscow
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.
1920d Paris
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.
1922g Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Essai d'une collection, June 2–20, 1922, n.n. information comes from Dauberville 2020.
1926b Paris
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.
1931a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
1936c Paris
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.
1961 Cambridge, Mass.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Works of Art from the Collections of the Harvard Class of 1936, June 11–August 25, 1961, no. 9.
1974 Tokyo and traveling
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.
1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling
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.
2008–09 Yokohama and traveling
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.
2012 Tokyo
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 75, ill.
Published References
Morice 1908
Morice, Charles. "Nouvelles tendances de l'art français." La Toison d'Or (April 1908), ill. opp. p. 52.
Bernheim-Jeune 1919
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 1926a
Dormoy, Marie, translated by Margarete Mauthner. "Die Cézanne - Ausstellung bei Bernheim-Jeune." Kunst und Künstler 24, no. 11 (1926), p. 448.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 346, ill. vol. II, as Les pommes.
Bernheim de Villers 1940
Bernheim de Villers, Gaston. Petites Histoires sur de grands artistes. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1940, ill.
Bernheim de Villers 1949
Bernheim de Villers, Gaston. Little Tales of Great Artists. New York: E. Weyhe, 1949, ill.
Bernheim de Villers 1954
Bernheim de Villers, Gaston. Un ami de Cézanne. Paris: Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1954, pl. [5], as Pommes.
Andersen 1967a
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne, Tanguy, Choquet [sic]." The Art Bulletin 49, no. 2 (June 1967), p. 139.
Bodelsen 1968b
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 1984
Potter, Margaret. The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection. New York: [privately published], 1984, pp. 159–61, 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. 417, ill. vol. 2, as Pommes et serviette.
Schmidt 2004a
Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 85.
Dauberville 2020
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 March 29, 2024).