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 775
L'Assiette bleue
1879–80
Alternate titles: Assiette bleue; Il piatto blu; Nature morte; Nature morte à l'assiette bleue; fragment; Pêches et Poires
Rewald (433): 1879–80; Venturi revised: 1879–82; Venturi (353): 1879–82
Oil on canvas
11 x 8 15/16 in. (28 x 22.7 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 162 and [172], Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1880 ; in another hand: Mirbeau
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 20, ill., as Nature morte, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Galerie Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, 1923.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 61, (dated c. 1885), as Assiette bleue, lent by A. Kann.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 22, as Nature morte à l'assiette bleue; fragment, lent by A. Kann.
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, Paul Cezanne: 28 malerier, November 13–December 1, 1954, no. 12, as L'Assiette bleue, lent by Peter Pitt-Millward.
Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, The Collection of Sir Edward and Lady Hulton, November 27, 1964–January 17, 1965, no. 3, ill. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zurich, December 3, 1967–January 7, 1968.
Lefevre Gallery, London, Important XIX and XX Century Works of Art, June 4–July 11, 1981, no. 5, ill.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 84, ill., as L'Assiette bleue, lent by Ise Cultural Foundation. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 130, ill., as Il piatto blu, lent by Ise Cultural Foundation, Japan.
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. 118, ill., as L'Assiette bleue, lent by Ise Cultural Foundation. Traveled to: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, February 7–April 12, 2009.
Published References
"Le courrier de la presse: Paul Cézanne." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 1, no. 26 (December 15, 1920), ill. p. 747, as Nature morte.
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 44.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 353, ill. vol. II, as L'Assiette bleue.
Gimpel, René. Journal d'un collectionneur marchand de tableaux. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1963, p. 274.
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. 433, ill. vol. 2, as L'Assiette bleue.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 196; vol. 2, p. 132, as L'Assiette bleue.
Leeman, Fred. Emile Bernard (1868–1941). Paris: Wildenstein Institute and Citadelles & Mazenod, 2013, p. 96, fig. 27, Private collection.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 33, ill., as Nature morte, installation photograph from 1920 exhibition, p. 110.
Hauptman, Jodi, and Samantha Friedman (eds.). Cézanne Drawing. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 245 (see p. 199 for proposed reconstruction of canvas with FWN 459 and 747).
Record last updated December 20, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Assiette bleue, 1879–80 (FWN 775)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=425 (accessed on October 7, 2024).
