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 789
Fleurs dans un pot d'olives
c.1880
Alternate titles: Blumenvase; Fleurs; Fleurs dans un pot vert; Fleurs dans un vase vert; Vase of flowers
Rewald (475): c.1880; Venturi revised: c.1877; Venturi (218): 1873–77
Oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 13 3/16 in. (46 x 33.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 28, as Fleurs dans un pot vert, lent by J. Hessel.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Art français du XIXe siècle au profit de l'Association Générale des mutilés de la guerre, June 25–July 13, 1917, no. 7, lent by Hessel.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, L'art français au XIXe siècle, 1919.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 33, as Fleurs, tentative identification, lent by Hessel.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Paul Cézanne (au profit de la caisse du monument Cézanne), March 3–24, 1924.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 2, as Fleurs dans un vase vert, lent by Rosenberg.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 22, (dated c. 1885), as Vase of flowers, lent by Private collection, Philadelphia.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 8, ill. lent by Tyson.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Masterpieces of Philadelphia Private Collections, May 20–September 15, 1947, no. 10.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections, July 19–August 21, 1983, no. 10, ill. lent by Philadelphia Museum.
Published References
Duret, Théodore. "Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 5, no. 3 (1907), ill. p. 101, as Blumenvase.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne: Huit phototypies d'après Cézanne;
Lettres de M.M. Jacques Flach, de L'Institut et André Suarès. Paris: Editions Crès, 1919, ill. p. 193.
T.[abarant], [Adolphe]. "Quelques propos sur Cézanne." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 5, no. 5 (March 1, 1924), ill. p. 105.
Salmon, André. "Cézanne et son 'Grappin' [Hommage à Paul Cézanne]." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 37 (July 1, 1926), p. 488, ill., as Fleurs (the rectangular patch above the table edge does not appear in the illustration).
Combe, Jacques. "L'influence de Cézanne." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 19, nos. 5-6 (May–June 1936), ill. p. 29, as Fleurs (the rectangular patch above the table edge does not appear in the illustration).
Ors, Eugenio d.' "Crise de Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 15, periode 6 (June 1936), p. 366, fig. 4, as Fleurs dans un vase vert (the rectangular patch above the table edge does not appear in the illustration).
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 218, ill. vol. II, as Fleurs dans un vase vert.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 19.
Rewald, John. "The Collection of Carroll S. Tyson, Jr, Philadelphia, U.S.A." Connoisseur 134 (September 1954), p. 68, ill.
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1141 (February 1964), p. 71, no. 234, ill., as Fleurs dans un vase vert.
Rewald, John. "The Collection of Carroll S. Tyson, Jr, Philadelphia, U.S.A." Bulletin of the Philadelphia Museum of Art 59, no. 280 (Winter 1964), p. 74, ill.
Turner, Norman. "Subjective Curvature in Late Cézanne." The Art Bulletin 63, no. 4 (December 1981), fig. 3.
Butler, Marigene. "An Investigation of the Materials and Technique Used by Paul Cézanne." American Institute for Conservation. 1984, ill.
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. 475, ill. vol. 2, as Fleurs dans un pot d'olives.
Furuta, Hirotoshi. "Shimazaki Toson and Cézanne: An Aspect of the Reception of Cézanne in Japan." In Cézanne and Japan. Yokohama: NHK, 1999. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 1 (reproduction from Bunsho Sekai article, 1909).
Inaga, Shigemi. "Between Revolutionary and Oriental Sage: Paul Cézanne in Japan." Japan review: Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies 28 (2015:), p. 134, fig. 1a (reproduction from Bunshō Sekai, 1909).
Schoneveld, Erin. Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism: art Magazines, Artistic Collectives, and the early Avant-Garde. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019, p. 53, fig. 43, this painting was illustrated as the frontispiece in Bunshō sekai, 4, no 1 (January 1909).
Record last updated March 28, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Fleurs dans un pot d'olives, c.1880 (FWN 789)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=465 (accessed on September 22, 2023).
