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 779
Verre et pommes
1879–80
Alternate titles: Glas und Äpfel; Glass and Apples; Pommes et Verre; Stilleben mit Aepfeln und einem Glas
Rewald (424): 1879–80; Venturi revised: 1879–82; Venturi (339): 1879–82; Gowing: 1879 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
12 3/8 x 15 11/16 in. (31.5 x 40 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, Französische Malerei, November 1920, no. 9, as Pommes et Verre, lent by Staechelin.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 22, as Pommes et Verre, tentative identification, lent by Staechelin.
Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, Französische Meister des 19. Jahrhunderts und van Gogh, February 18–April 2, 1934, no. 4, as Stilleben mit Aepfeln und einem Glas.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Sammlung Rudolf Staechelin, May 13–June 17, 1956, no. 20, ill.
Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, Fondation Rudolphe Staechelin: de Corot à Picasso, April 10–June 28, 1964, no. 18, ill., as Verre et pommes, 1879-82.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 15, as Verre et pommes, lent by Kunstmuseum, Basel.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 32, fig. 240, pp. 231, 338, as Verre et pommes, lent by Collection Rudolf Staechelin, on permanent loan to Kunstmuseum Basel. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 97, ill.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 66, ill. lent by Rudolf Staechelin.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 244 (reconstructed image with FWN 760 [pl. 243], p. 199), Collection Rudolf Staechelin, Basel.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 339, ill. vol. II, as Verre et pommes.
Grünigen, Berchtold von. Vom Impressionismus zum Tachismus. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1964, p. 24, fig. 31.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 22, ill.
Müller, Hans-Joachim, ed. Die Sammlung Rudolf Staechelin. Basel: Wiese, 1990, pp. 80–81, 141, ill.
Shiff, Richard. "Cézanne's Physicality: The Politics of Touch." In The Language of Art History, edited by Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 139–42, fig. 8.2
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. 424, ill. vol. 2, as Verre et 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. 17, no. 113, ill.
Shiff, Richard. "Mark, Motif, Materiality." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 118, fig. 24, as Verre et pommes.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 1925 vol. 2, p. 133, as Verre et pommes.
Warman, Jayne. "Cézanne peintre des peintres." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 168, fig. 168, as Verre et pommes.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 201, pl. 90.
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. 186, fig. 14, as Glass and Apples.
Zieglgänsberger, Roman. "Den Horizont abstecken: Alexej von Jawlensky zwischen 1896 und 1914." In Horizont Jawlensky: Alexej von Jawlensky im Spiegel seiner künstlerischen Begegnungen, 1900-1914. Munich: Hirmer, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 42, fig. 23, as Glas und Äpfel, 1879/82.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 21, ill., as Pommes et Verre.
Aebi, Kiko and Abed Haddad. "Cut from the same cloth: a composite canvas by Paul Cezanne." The Burlington Magazine 164 (December 2022), figs. 2, 5 (reconstructed with FWN 760), 6 (x-radiograph), 7 (pigment analysis), as Glass and Apples.
Haskell, Caitlin. "Cezanne's Refusal." In Cezanne. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022, p. 39, fig. 4 (composite image with FWN 760).
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. "Verre et pommes, 1879–80 (FWN 779)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=417 (accessed on March 27, 2025).
