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 788
Le Vase bleu sombre
c.1880
Alternate titles: Flowers; Le Vase bleu sombre, II; Trois Fleurs
Rewald (473): c.1880; Venturi revised: 1879–82
Oil on canvas
12 3/16 x 10 5/8 in. (31.1 x 27 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 36, as Trois Fleurs, lent by Mrs. Montgomery Sears.
Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment, New York, International Exhibition of Modern Art [Armory Show], February 17–March 15, 1913, no. 1068, as Flowers, lent by Mrs. Montgomery Sears. Traveled to: Art Institute, Chicago, March 24–April 15, 1913; Copley Hall, Boston, April 28–May 18, 1913.
Copley Society of Boston, Copley Hall, Boston, Armory Show, April 28–May 19, 1913, no. 22.
New-York Historical Society, New York, The Armory Show at 100, Modernism and Revolution, October 11, 2013–February 23, 2014, lent by Ann and Gordon Getty.
Published References
Brown, Milton. The Story of the Armory Show. New York: J.H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, pp. 74, 229, no. 1068.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 192, 196, fig. 10.
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. 473, ill. vol. 2, as Le Vase bleu sombre, II.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 197; vol. 2, p. 134, as Le Vase bleu sombre, II.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, p. 86, ill. (installation photo of 2010 exhibition).
Record last updated October 21, 2022. 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 788)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=463 (accessed on July 15, 2025).
