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© The Kreeger Museum, Washington, D.C.
FWN 787
Le Vase bleu sombre
c.1880
Alternate titles: Donker vassje; Fleurs; Flowers; Le vase bleu; Le Vase bleu sombre, III; Stilleven: Vaas met bloemen; Vase bleu
Rewald (474): c.1880; Venturi revised: 1879–82; Venturi (361): 1879–82
Oil on canvas
15 11/16 x 7 7/8 in. (40 x 20 cm)
Kreeger Museum, Washington, D.C.

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Cornelis Hoogendijk, Amsterdam;
Riet Van Blaaderen-Hoogendijk, Laren
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Guido di Tella, Buenos Aires (Apr. 19, 1943);
Christie's, London, Apr. 11, 1972, no. 52, ill.
[Richard L. Feigen, New York]
Mr. and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger, Washington, D.C.;
Kreeger Museum, Washington, D.C.
Exhibition History
1930 Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Vincent van Gogh en zijn tijdgenooten, September 6–November 2, 1930, no. 130, as Stilleven: Vaas met bloemen, lent by van Blaaderen, Amsterdam.
1933 Amsterdam
Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam, Het stilleven, ten bate van de Vereeniging "Rembrandt", February 18–March 18, 1933, no. 47, as Donker vassje, lent by Private collection, Netherlands.
1933 Rotterdam
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Tentoonstelling van 115 stillevens: 1480-1933, April 1–23, 1933, no. 16, as Donker vassje, lent by Private collection, Netherlands.
1938b London
Rosenberg & Helft, London, Ten French Painters of the XIXth Century, February 15–March 12, 1938, no. 3, as Vase bleu, 1880.
2014–15 Philadelphia and traveling
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, The World is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne, June 14–September 22, 2014, pl. 15, p. 194. Traveled to: Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, November 1, 2014–January 31, 2015.
Published References
Van Riemsdijk 1910
Riemsdijk, Barthold Willem Floris van. Catalogue of the Pictures, Miniatures, Pastels, Framed Drawings etc. at the Rijks-Museum at Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Roeloffzen-Hübner and Van Santen, 1910, p. 425, no. 688K, as Flowers.
Rijksmuseum 1911
Catalogue des tableaux, miniatures, pastels, dessins encadrés, etc. du Musée de l'État à Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Roeloffzen-Hübner et Van Santen, 1911, p. 100, no. 688K, as Fleurs.
Huebner 1922
Huebner, Friedrich Markus. Moderne Kunst in den holländischen Privatsammlungen. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1922, ill. (as a work by Redon).
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 361, ill. vol. II, as Le vase bleu.
Sharpe 1976
Sharpe, Margy P., ed. The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger. Richmond, VA: W.M. Brown, 1976, p. 68, ill.
Henkels 1993
Henkels, Herbert. "Cézanne en Van Gogh in het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst in Amsterdam: De collectie van Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866–1911)." Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 41, nos. 3–4 (1993), fig. 57.
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. 474, ill. vol. 2, as Le Vase bleu sombre, III.
Rikhof 2023
Rikhof, Maalke. "Symbolist, Post-Impressionist, Cubist, Traditonalist, The Reception of Paul Cézanne in the Netherlands, 1890–1930." In Van Gogh, Cézanne, Le Fauconnier and the Bergen School. Zwolle: Stedelijk Museum and Waanders, 2023. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 48.
Record last updated January 26, 2021. 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 787)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=464 (accessed on May 5, 2024).