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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)
Catalogue entry
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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 142, Annotated: Melun 1880 ; in another hand: 1874
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Edgar Degas, Paris (January 6, 1896);
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (March 27, 1918)
Degas Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, March 26–27, 1918, no. 14, ill.
Rudolf Staechelin, Basel
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895, Degas buys.1920 Bern
Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, Französische Malerei, November 1920, no. 9, as Pommes et Verre, lent by Staechelin.1921 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 22, as Pommes et Verre, tentative identification, lent by Staechelin.1934 Bern
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.1956a Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Sammlung Rudolf Staechelin, May 13–June 17, 1956, no. 20, ill.1964a Paris
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, 1879-82.1983 Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 15, as Verre et pommes, lent by Kunstmuseum, Basel.2006–07 New York and traveling
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, 2007.2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 97, ill.2017 Martigny
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 66, ill. lent by Rudolf Staechelin.2021a New York
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 339, ill. vol. II, as Verre et pommes.Grünigen 1964
Grünigen, Berchtold von. Vom Impressionismus zum Tachismus. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1964, p. 24, fig. 31.Elgar 1975
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 26.Du 1989
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 22, ill.Müller 1990
Müller, Hans-Joachim, ed. Die Sammlung Rudolf Staechelin. Basel: Wiese, 1990, pp. 80–81, 141, ill.Shiff 1991
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. 8.2Dumas 1996
Dumas, Ann. Degas as a Collector. London: Apollo Magazine Ltd., 1996, fig. 52, 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. 424, ill. vol. 2, as Verre et 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. 17, no. 113, ill.Shiff 2000
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 2008
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 2011
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 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 201, pl. 90.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. 186, fig. 14, as Glass and Apples.Zieglgänsberger 2014
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 2020
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 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. 2, 5 (reconstructed with FWN 760), 6 (x-radiograph), 7 (pigment analysis), as Glass and Apples.Haskell 2022
Haskell, Caitlin. "Cezanne's Refusal." In Cezanne. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022, p. 39, fig. 4 (composite image with FWN 760).Notes
Edgar Degas described this still life as "verre avec feuilles dedans," not realizing that the leaves were in fact an element of the background wallpaper.
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. "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 April 24, 2024).
