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Catalogue entry

FWN 819
Les Pommes
1889–90
Alternate titles: Apples; Les pommes; Pommes; Still Life with Apples
Rewald (673): 1889–90; Venturi revised: 1883–86; Venturi (501): 1885–87
Oil on canvas
15 x 18 in. (38 x 45.7 cm)
Private collection

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Cornelis Hoogendijk, Amsterdam
Paul Rosenberg, Paris (1920)
Jacques Laroche, Paris (1920)
Marcel Kapferer, Paris;
[Kapferer Collection], Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 23, 1934, no. 5, ill.
Gustave Levy, Paris
Wildenstein Galleries, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. Lewyt, New York (1953);
Mrs. Alexander Lewyt, New York;
Alex and Elisabeth Lewyt Collection, Sotheby's, New York, May 7, 2013, no. 7, ill.
Private collection
Exhibition History
1924b Paris
Hôtel de la curiosité et des beaux-arts, Paris, Première exposition de collectionneurs au profit de la Société des amis de Luxembourg, March 10–April 10, 1924, no. 136, as Pommes, lent by Laroche.
1928 Amsterdam
E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, Amsterdam, Cent Ans de peinture française, April 16–May 5, 1928, no. 4, as Les Pommes.
1929 New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 28, ill., (dated c. 1890), as Apples, lent by Étienne Bignou, Paris.
1953 Aix-en-Provence and traveling
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 4–August 4, 1953, no. 13, lent by Lewyt. Traveled to: Musée Masséna, Nice, France, August 8–September 12, 1953; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, September 15–October 18, 1953.
1959e New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 34, ill. lent by Lewyt.
1966a New York
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Impressionist Treasures from Private Collections in New York, January 12–29, 1966, no. 3, ill.
1968b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Collects, July 3–September 2, 1968, no. 29.
1968 New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Collects: Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture from Private Collections, July 3–September 2, 1968, no. 29, as Apples, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Alex M. Lewyt.
1975a New York
Wildenstein, New York, The Object as Subject: Still Life Paintings from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, April 4–May 3, 1975, no. 16, as Still Life with Apples, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Lewyt.
1984 Madrid
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March 9–April 1984, no. 35, ill., (dated 1887).
Published References
Wilenski 1931
Wilenski, R.H. French Painting. Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1931, pl. 132b.
Iavorskaia 1935b
Iavorskaia, Nina. Paul Cézanne. Milan: Hoepli, 1935, pl. XXI.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 501, ill. vol. II, as Les pommes.
Rewald 1937a
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.
Brion 1971
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1971, ill. p. 78.
Henkels 1993
Henkels, Herbert. "Cézanne en Van Gogh in het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst in Amsterdam: De collectie van Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866–1911)." Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 41, nos. 3–4 (1993), fig. 162.
Kostenevich 1995
Kostenevich, Albert. Hidden Treasures Revealed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 196, fig. 2.
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. 673, ill. vol. 2, as Les Pommes.
Record last updated May 12, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Pommes, 1889–90 (FWN 819)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=653 (accessed on May 5, 2024).