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Catalogue entry

FWN 786
Le Vase bleu sombre
c.1880
Alternate titles: Fleurs; Fleurs dans un vase; Fleurs dans un vase bleu; Flowers in a Blue Vase; Le Vase bleu sombre, I; Roses dans un vase; Vase de fleurs
Rewald (472): c.1880; Venturi revised: 1879–82; Venturi (362): 1879–82
Oil on canvas
11 13/16 x 9 1/16 in. (30 x 23 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 4119, huile; roses dans deux [vases?] noires, à côté 3 fruits rouge, jaune, vert; le fond inachevé, 35 x 45 cm (before divided into two works) (100 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4213, Fleurs dans vase et fruits, 35 x 45 (before divided in two) (500 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 250, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1875
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (Collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume) (RF 1963-12)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Adolphe Tavernier, Paris (November 7, 1899)
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Maurice Gangnat, Paris and Berlin (Feb. 16, 1907);
Gangnat Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 25, 1925, no. 164, ill.
Etienne Vautheret, Lyon;
Vautheret Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 16, 1933, no. 3, ill.
Galerie G. Petit, Paris
Reid & Lefèvre, London (Aug. 31, 1933)
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris (Jan. 16, 1936)
Madame Jean Walter (Mme Paul Guillaume), Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (1963)
Exhibition History
1934 Ottawa and traveling
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, French Painting of the 19th Century, January 1934, no. 12. Traveled to: Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, February 1934; Art Association, Montreal, March 1934.
1934 Glasgow
McLellan Gallery, Glasgow, United Kingdom, French Painting in the XIXth Century, May 1934, no. 10.
1934b London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Renoir, Cézanne and Their Contemporaries, June 1934, no. 6, as Fleurs dans un vase, c. 1885.
1935b London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, July 1935, no. 4, as Fleurs dans un vase.
1938c London
Leger Galleries, London, Impressionnisme, March 30–May 15, 1938, no. 4, as Roses dans un vase.
1939 London
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, Contrasts & Affinities: Four Centuries of Flower Painting, March 16–April 6, 1939, no. 5.
1946a Paris
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, La Vie silencieuse, 1946, no. 13, as Fleurs.
1966a Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Collection Jean Walter – Paul Guillaume, January 1966, no. 9, ill.
1974 Tokyo and traveling
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 26. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
1974b Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 28, ill. in b/w, as Fleurs dans un vase bleu.
1980–81 Marcq-en-Baroeul
Septentrion - Fondation Anne et Albert Prouvost, Marcq-en-Baroeul, France, Impressionnisme, October 18, 1980–January 25, 1981, no. 6, ill., as Fleurs dans un vase bleu.
1981 Tbilisi and traveling
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Georgie, Tbilisi, Georgia, Impressionnistes et post-impressionnistes des musées français: de Manet à Matisse, 1981, no. 7, ill., as Fleurs dans un vase bleu. Traveled to: Musée de l’Ermitage, Leningrad, Russian Federation, 1981.
1985–86 Saint Germain-en-Laye
Musée du Prieuré, Saint Germain-en-Laye, France, Le Chemin de Gauguin, October 7, 1985–March 2, 1986, no. 272, ill., p. 140.
1998–2000 Tokyo and traveling
Musée des Beaux-Arts Bunkamura, Tokyo, Chefs d’œuvre du Musée de l'Orangerie : collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume, November 14, 1998–February 14, 1999, no. 5, ill., as Fleurs dans un vase bleu. Traveled to: Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan, February 23–April 7, 1999; Musée départemental d'arts, Hiroshima, Japan, April 17–June 27, 1999; Musée départemental d'art moderne, Niigata, Japan, July 10–September 12, 1999; Musée national d'art moderne, Kyoto, Japan, September 21–November 14, 1999; Musée d'art moderne, Taipei, Taiwan, November 4, 1999–March 1, 2000; Museum of fine arts, Kaoshiung, Taiwan, 2000.
2000–02 Montreal and traveling
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, From Renoir to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie, June 1–October 15, 2000, no. 20, ill., as Fleurs dans un vase bleu, c. 1880 (no. 21 in Barcelona catalogue). Traveled to: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, November 12, 2000–February 25, 2001; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, March 29–May 20, 2001; Art Gallery New Soth Wales, Sydney, June 1–July 29, 2001; National Gallery of Victoria on Russell, Melbourne, Australia, August 10–September 30, 2001; Fundación La Caixa - CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain, April 11–June 30, 2002.
2003–2004 Toulouse
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France, Cézanne: quartoze chefs-œuvres du musée de l'Orangerie, December 16, 2003–April 15, 2004, no. 7, ill., as Fleurs dans un vase bleu.
2005 Bergamo
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy, Cézanne, Renoir: 30 capolavori dal Musée de l'Orangerie. I 'classici' dell'Impressionismo dalla collezione Paul Guillaume, March 22–July 3, 2005, no number, pp. 94–95, 97, ill., as Fleurs dans un vase bleu, in black and white with no. 471, p. 95, and in color p. 97.
Published References
Werth 1925
Werth, Leon. "La collection Gangnat." L'Amour de l'art 6, no. 2 (February 1925), ill. p. 55, as Fleurs.
Zervos 1934
Zervos, Christian. "Renoir, Cézanne, leurs contemporains et la jeune peintre anglaise." Cahiers d'Art, nos. 5–8 (1934), p. 136, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 362, ill. vol. II, as Fleurs dans un vase bleu.
Musée de l'Orangerie 1966
Musée de l'Orangerie. Collection Jean Walter - Paul Guillaume. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1966, no. 9, ill., as Fleurs dans un vase bleu.
Hoog 1986
Hoog, Michel. Musée de l’Orangerie: catalogue de la collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 18, no. 3, ill., as Fleurs dans un vase bleu.
Hoog 1987
Hoog, Michel. Catalogue of the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume Collection. Translated by Barbara Shuey. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1987, pp. 18–19, no, 3, ill., as Flowers in a Blue Vase.
Hoog 1992
Hoog, Michel. "Une Nature morte de Cézanne reconstituée." Revue du Louvre - la revue des musées de France, no. 3 (July 1992), pp. 64–66, fig. 2, as Fleurs dans un vase bleu, fig. 4: old photograph of the still-life before being cut in two.
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. 472, ill. vol. 2, as Le Vase bleu sombre, I.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 6, ill., as Vase de fleurs.
Le Vase bleu sombre, c.1880 (FWN 786). Reconstituted image of FWN 785 and 786 as it would have appeared before being cut in two
Reconstituted image of FWN 785 and 786 as it would have appeared before being cut in two
Record last updated March 23, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Vase bleu sombre, c.1880 (FWN 786)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=462 (accessed on April 25, 2024).