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Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

Provenance
Octave Mirbeau, Paris
Mirbeau Collection, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, Februqry 24, 1919, no. 8 ill.; bought in
Madame Mirbeau, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, November 4, 1920
Alphonse Kann, Saint-Germain-en-Laye (March 8, 1924)
Peter Pitt-Millward, London
Sotheby's, London, May 6, 1959, no. 74, ill.
Einstein, London
Sir Edward and Lady Hulton, London (on extended loan to the Kunsthaus Zurich)
Reid & Lefèvre, London
Fujii Gallery, Tokyo
Ise Cultural Foundation, Japan
Sotheby's, New York, November 13, 2023, no. 14, ill.
Private collection
Exhibition History
1920d Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 20, ill., as Nature morte, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
1923 Lyon
Galerie Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, 1923.
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 61, (dated c. 1885), as Assiette bleue, lent by A. Kann.
1938b Amsterdam
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.
1954 Oslo
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, Paul Cezanne: 28 malerier, November 13–December 1, 1954, no. 12, as L'Assiette bleue, lent by Peter Pitt-Millward.
1964–65 Rotterdam and traveling
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.
1981a London
Lefevre Gallery, London, Important XIX and XX Century Works of Art, June 4–July 11, 1981, no. 5, ill.
1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling
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.
2002 Rome
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.
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. 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 Bulletin de la vie artistique 1920b
"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 1925
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 44.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 353, ill. vol. II, as L'Assiette bleue.
Gimpel 1963
Gimpel, René. Journal d'un collectionneur marchand de tableaux. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1963, p. 274.
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. 433, ill. vol. 2, as L'Assiette bleue.
Machotka 2008
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 2013
Leeman, Fred. Emile Bernard (1868–1941). Paris: Wildenstein Institute and Citadelles & Mazenod, 2013, p. 96, fig. 27, Private collection.
Dauberville 2020
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 and Friedman 2021
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).
L'Assiette bleue, 1879–80 (FWN 775). Proposed reconstruction – see MoMA 2021, p. 199
Proposed reconstruction – see MoMA 2021, p. 199
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 March 28, 2024).