The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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FWN 798
Quatre pommes et un couteau
c.1885
Alternate titles: Äpfel auf Teller; Pommes sur une assiette; Quatre pommes et couteau
Rewald (562): c.1885; Venturi revised: 1883–86; Venturi (509): 1883–87
Oil on canvas
8 11/16 x 10 3/16 in. (22 x 26 cm)
Vollard W stockbook: no. 756, Nature morte; huile, 22 x 26 (10,000)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 62, as Pommes sur une assiette, lent by Sidney Brown.
Casino, Luxembourg, Luxe, calme et volupté: Regards sur le post-impressionnisme, collectionneurs à Winterthur et Baden au début du XXe siècle, January 14–March 26, 1995, no. 27.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 231, ill. p. 79, as Quatre pommes et un couteau.
Published References
Dormoy, Marie. "Quelques tableaux de la collection particulière Ambroise Vollard." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, no. 17 (September 1931), ill. between pp. 122 and 113.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 509, ill. vol. II, as Quatre pommes et couteau.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 20, ill.
Deuchler, Florens. Die französischen Impressionisten und ihre Vorläufer. Baden: Stiftung "Langmatt" Sidney und Jenny Brown, 1990, no. 16, ill., as Äpfel auf Teller.
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 38.
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. 562, ill. vol. 2, as Quatre pommes et un couteau.
Preiswerk-Lösel, Eva-Maria, ed. A House for the Impressionists: The Langmatt Museum. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2005, pp. 172–74, il. cat. no. 21, p. 258.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 271; vol. 2, p. 178, as Quatre pommes et un couteau.
Record last updated October 25, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Quatre pommes et un couteau, c.1885 (FWN 798)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=549 (accessed on February 16, 2025).