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Catalogue entry

FWN 796
Nature morte aux poires
c.1885
Alternate titles: Natura morta con pere; Nature morte: Assiette de poires; Pears and Apples; Plato con peras; Stilleben; Stilleben mit Birnen
Rewald (556): c.1885; Venturi revised: 1890–93; Venturi (744): 1895–1900
Oil on canvas
15 x 18 1/8 in. (38 x 46 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3364, peinture à l'huile; poires et pommes dans une assiette débordant sur une nape blanche, 36 x 48 cm (150 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3848, Fruits verts et rouges dans assiette près d'une nappe, 38 x 46 cm (100 frs)
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne (Fondation Corboud) (inv. WRM 3189)

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Paul Cassirer, Berlin
Hugo Cassirer, Berlin;
Lotte Cassirer-Fürstenberg, Berlin;
Stephan Cassirer, Copenhagen;
Sotheby's, London, Dec. 6, 1961, no. 78, ill.
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (1961)
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne (1965)
Exhibition History
1909b Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, November 17–December 12, 1909, no. 35, as Stilleben, lent by Private collection [Hugo Cassirer].
1921 Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 37, as Stilleben mit Birnen, lent by Hugo Cassirer.
1939 Buenos Aires and traveling
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina Republic, La Pintura francesca: de David a nuestros días, July 18–August 1939, no. 11, as Plato con peras, 1895-1900, lent by Mme F[ürstenberg]. Traveled to: Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina Republic, August 31–September 10, 1939; Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay, April 1940; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, June–July 1940.
1940 Montevideo
Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay, La Pintura francesa: de David a nuestros días, April 1940, no. 5, as Plato con peras, 1885-1900, lent by Mme F[ürstenberg].
1940–41 San Francisco
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, The Paintings of France since the French Revolution, December 7, 1940–January 1941, no. 5, ill. p. 84, as Pears and Apples, lent by Mrs. F, Paris.
1941b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec, February 6–March 26, 1941, no. 9.
1941 Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Masterpieces of French Art Lent by the Museums and Collectors of France, April 10–May 20, 1941, no. 14, pl. XL.
1941 Portland
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, Masterpieces of French Painting, September 3–October 5, 1941, no. 7, ill.
1993 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 84, ill.
2000 Dortmund
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, Cézanne, Manet, Schuch: drei Wege zur autonomen Kunst, May 30–July 30, 2000, no. 10, ill., as Stilleben mit Birnen.
2002 Rome
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 156, ill., as Natura morta con pere, lent by Wallraf-Richartz Museum.
2007–08 Bremen
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, Paula Modersohn-Becker und die Kunst in Paris um 1900 - Von Cézanne bis Picasso, October 13, 2007–February 24, 2008, no. 143, ill., as Stilleben mit Birnen, c. 1885.
2014a Madrid
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 31, ill.
2015–16 Seoul
Hanagaram Design Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea, Impressionist Landscapes – van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, Manet, Renoir, Monet, Signac, December 19, 2015–April 3, 2016, ill.
2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 59, ill.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 744, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte: Assiette de poires.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 150, listed p. 171.
Ikegami 1969
Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, pl. 56.
Baron and Bonafoux 1993
Baron, Jean-Marie and Pascal Bonafoux. Cézanne: Les Natures Mortes. Paris: Editions Herscher, 1993, p. 43, ill.
Bonafoux 1995
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 229, ill.
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. 556, ill. vol. 2, as Nature morte aux poires.
Dittmann 2005
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, p. 243, ill. in b/w.
Feilchenfeldt 2005a
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Cézannes in Deutschland." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 154, ill.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 272; vol. 2, p. 179, as Nature morte aux poires.
Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2013d
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektion Paul Cézanne: 17. November bis 12. Dezember 1909." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1908-1910. vol. 4, "Ganz eigenartige neue Werte". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2013, p. 307, ill.
Stuffmann 2017
Stuffmann, Margret. "Hidden Propensities, Cézanne and Delacroix." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 9.
Record last updated February 3, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Nature morte aux poires, c.1885 (FWN 796)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=543 (accessed on April 19, 2024).