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 821
Grosses pommes
c.1890
Alternate titles: Äpfel; Apples; Les grosses pommes; Nature morte (fruits); Nature morte. Pommes et tasse; Pommes; Pommes et Tasse; Still life: apples and teacup; Stilleben
Rewald (661): c.1890; Venturi revised: c.1895; Venturi (621): 1890–94
Oil on canvas
18 5/16 x 22 in. (46.6 x 55.8 cm)
Signed lower left: P. Cezanne
Private collection, Washington, D.C.
Provenance
Private collection, Lausanne;
Private collection, Washington, D.C.
Exhibition History
Manzi, Joyant & Cie, l'Hôtel de la revue "Les Arts," Paris, Exposition d'art moderne, June 6–July 6, 1912, no. 1, as Nature morte (fruits), [lent by Bernheim-Jeune or A. Kann].
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 14, as Pommes, tentative identification, lent by A.K[ann].
Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, Pictures, Drawings, and Sculptures of the French School of the Last 100 Years, Spring 1922, no. 14, as Still life: apples and teacup, lent by A. Kann.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Le grand siècle, June 15–July 11, 1936, no. 4, as Nature morte. Pommes et tasse, 1888, lent by Private collection.
New Burlington Galleries, London, Exhibition of Masters of French 19th Century Painting, October 1–31, 1936, no. 93, as Les grosses pommes, lent by Private collection.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 16, (dated 1890–94), as Grosses pommes, lent by Goldschmidt.
Palace of Fine Arts, Treasure Island, San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, May 25–September 29, 1940, no. 240, ill., as Apples, lent by Dr. Jakob Goldschmidt, New York.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Aspects of French Painting from Cézanne to Picasso, January 15–March 2, 1941, no. 5.
Paul Rosenberg, New York, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne (1839-1906) for the Benefit of Fighting France, November 19–December 19, 1942, no. 17, ill. lent by Goldschmidt.
New York, The Jakob Goldschmidt Collection, 1946.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 52, ill. lent by Goldschmidt.
A. Seligman-Helft Galleries, New York, French Still-Life from Chardin to Cézanne, October 29–November 22, 1947, no. 2, lent by Jakob Goldschmidt.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 39, ill. lent by anon.
Published References
Alexandre, Arsène. "Exposition d'art moderne à l'Hôtel de la revue 'Les Arts.'" Les Arts: revue mensuelle des musées, collections, expositions, no. 128 (August 1912), ill. p. VII, no. 10, as Nature morte (fruits).
Glaser, Curt. "Das Cézanne-Buch Joachim Gasquets I [and] II." Kunst und Künstler 25, nos. 8 and 9 (1927), ill. p. 325.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 79, as Stilleben.
Basler, Adolphe, and Charles Künstler. La Peinture indépendante en France. Paris: G. Crès, 1929, pl. 4.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 621, ill. vol. II, as Les grosses pommes.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 56.
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Intimate Cézanne Centennial at Marie Harriman Gallery." Art News 38 (November 11, 1939), p. 8, ill.
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, pp. 88–89, pl. XVIII.
"Impressionist Paintings by French Masters to be Sold." The Daily Telegraph (London), September 5, 1958, p. 14, ill., as Les grosses pommes.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 135.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 31, with comments.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 60, ill. in color.
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. 661, ill. vol. 2, as Les grosses pommes.
Dascher, Ottfried. "Es ist was Wahnsinniges mit der Kunst" : Alfred Flechtheim - Sammler, Kunsthändler, Verleger. vol. 6, Quellenstudien zur Kunst: eine Schriftenreihe der International Music and Art Foundation, Walter Feilchenfeldt, ed. [Wädenswil]: Nimbus, 2013, listed p. 420, as Les grosses pommes.
Record last updated December 21, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Grosses pommes, c.1890 (FWN 821)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=642 (accessed on April 24, 2024).
