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Catalogue entry

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)
Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Andries Bonger, Amsterdam (1896);
Heirs of Andries Bonger
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (1966)
Paul Rosenberg, New York (Mar. 16, 1967)
Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena (Dec. 14, 1967);
Christie's, New York, May 19, 1982, N. 23, ill. (offered with Redon copy); bought in
Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena (1967)
Exhibition History
1912 Cologne
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.
1968–69 Minneapolis
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1968–69.
1970 Berkeley
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California, Excellence: Art from the University Community, 1970, no. 273.
1973–74 San Francisco
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 358, ill. vol. II, as Vase de fleurs.
Gowing 1956
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 188.
Rewald 1956b
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 1980
Herrmann, Frank. Selected Paintings at the Norton Simon Museum. New York: Harmony Books, 1980, p. 10, ill. (with Redon copy).
Rishel 1983
Rishel, Joseph J. Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1983. Exhibition catalogue, p. 17, fig. 8a.
Benjamin 1989
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).
Norton Simon Museum 1989
Masterpieces from the Norton Simon Museum. Pasadena: Norton Simon Museum, 1989, p. 158, ill., as Vase of Flowers.
Homburg 1992
Homburg, Cornelia. "Affirming Modernity: van Gogh's Arlésienne." Simiolus 21, no. 3 (1991), pp. 135–37.
Homburg 1996
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 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. 478, ill. vol. 2, as Fleurs dans un vase rouge.
Brettell and Eisenmann 2006
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 2008
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 2009
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 2012
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 134, p. 555.
Colrat 2013
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 April 24, 2024).