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 791
Fleurs dans un vase rouge
1880–81
Alternate titles: Rosenstrauss in braunem Topf; Vase de fleurs; Vase of Flowers
Rewald (478): 1880–81; Venturi revised: 1879–82; Venturi (358): 1879–82; Cooper: 1879
Oil on canvas
18 1/2 x 21 11/16 in. (47 x 55.2 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 134, as Rosenstrauss in braunem Topf, lent by Bonger.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1968–69.
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California, Excellence: Art from the University Community, 1970, no. 273.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Three Centuries of French Art: Selections from the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art and The Norton Simon Foundation, May 3, 1973–June 15, 1974, no. 43, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 358, ill. vol. II, as Vase de fleurs.
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 188.
Rewald, John. "Quelques notes et documents sur Odilon Redon." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 48, periode 6 (November 1956), pp. 96–97, note 36.
Herrmann, Frank. Selected Paintings at the Norton Simon Museum. New York: Harmony Books, 1980, p. 10, ill. (with Redon copy).
Rishel, Joseph J. Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1983. Exhibition catalogue, p. 17, fig. 8a.
Benjamin, Roger. "Recovering Authors: The Modern Copy, Copy Exhibitions and Matisse." Art History 12 (June 1989), pp. 191–92, figs. 53 and 54 (with Redon copy).
Masterpieces from the Norton Simon Museum. Pasadena: Norton Simon Museum, 1989, p. 158, ill., as Vase of Flowers.
Homburg, Cornelia. "Affirming Modernity: van Gogh's Arlésienne." Simiolus 21, no. 3 (1991), pp. 135–37.
Homburg, Cornelia. The Copy Turns Original: Vincent van Gogh and a New Approach to Traditional Art. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1996, pp. 122, 149n385, fig. 75.
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. 478, ill. vol. 2, as Fleurs dans un vase rouge.
Brettell, Richard, and Stephen Eisenmann. Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum. New Haven: Norton Simon Foundation with Yale University Press, 2006, pp. 297–301, no. 80, ill., as Vase of Flowers.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 202; vol. 2, p. 135, as Fleurs dans un vase rouge.
Leeman, Fred. Odilon Redon and Emile Bernard: Masterpieces from the Andries Bonger Collection. Amsterdam and Zwolle: Van Gogh Museum and Waanders, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, no. 77 of checklist, p. 118, shown in 1904 installation photograph, fig. 95.
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 134, p. 555.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 202, pl. 91.
Notes
Redon made a faithful copy of the painting, which is also in the Norton Simon Museum.
Record last updated January 4, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Fleurs dans un vase rouge, 1880–81 (FWN 791)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=467 (accessed on January 21, 2025).
