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Catalogue entry

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)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4214, Fleurs dans vase, 33 x 28 cm (100 frs)
Collection of Drew Thomas

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Mrs. J. Montgomery Sears, Boston (Apr. 19, 1906);
J.D. Cameron Bradley, Boston
J.A. Davidson, New York?
[Knoedler Galleries, New York (Dec. 12, 1950)]
French Art Galleries, New York (Apr. 23, 1951)
Henry Leir, Luxembourg;
Sotheby's, London, June 17, 1995, no. 2, ill.
Ann and Gordon Getty, San Francisco;
Getty Collection, Christie's, New York, October 21, 2022, no. 198, ill.
Collection of Drew Thomas
Exhibition History
1910a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 36, as Trois Fleurs, lent by Mrs. Montgomery Sears.
1913 New York
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.
1913 Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Armory Show, March 24–April 16, 1913, no. 47.
1913 Boston
Copley Society of Boston, Copley Hall, Boston, Armory Show, April 28–May 19, 1913, no. 22.
2013–14 New York
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 1963
Brown, Milton. The Story of the Armory Show. New York: J.H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, pp. 74, 229, no. 1068.
Rewald 1989
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 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. 473, ill. vol. 2, as Le Vase bleu sombre, II.
Machotka 2008
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 2020
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 April 24, 2024).