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Catalogue entry

FWN 823

Le Vase bleu

1889–90

Alternate titles: Die blaue Vase; Il vaso blu; Le vase bleu; Le Vase bleu. Iris et pois de senteur; Le Vase bleu. Iris et pois senteur; Les Fleurs; Stilleben mit blauer Vase; The Blue Vase

Rewald (675): 1889–90; Venturi revised: 1886–88; Venturi (512): 1883–87; Rivière: c.1880 and 1885; Vollard: c.1889

Oil on canvas

24 3/8 x 20 1/16 in. (62 x 51 cm)

Vollard archives: photo no. 24, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1878

Musée d'Orsay, Paris (RF 1973)

Keywords

Still-life objects
Edibles and Flowers:
- flower(s) / fleur(s) »
- fruit(s) »
Still-life objects
Dishes and Vessels:
- bottle(s) / bouteille(s) »
- plate / assiette »
- vase »
Still-life objects
Miscellaneous:
- ink pot / encrier »
Interiors
Wall decoration:
- chair rail / dado »
- chair rail / dado with 3 red bands »
Interiors
Furnishings:
- table (or wooden surface) »

Catalogue Entry
Additional Materials
Sketchbook

Provenance

Eugène Blot, Paris;

Blot Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 9–10 1900, no. 20; bought in;

Blot Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 10 1906, no. 16, ill.

Count Isaac de Camondo, Paris (bequeathed to the Louvre in 1908);

Musée du Louvre, Paris (1911, Bequest of Isaac de Camondo; exhibited from 1914 on)

Musée du Louvre, galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris (1947-1986);

Musée d'Orsay, Paris (1986)

Exhibition History

1904b Paris

Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 18, as Les Fleurs, lent by Blot.

1936c Paris

Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 64, pl. XXVIII, as Le Vase bleu, lent by Louvre, Camondo.

1945f Paris

Musée du Louvre, Paris, Ecole française, 1945, no. 84.

1952 Chicago and traveling

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 61, ill. lent by Louvre. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.

1953 Aix-en-Provence and traveling

Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 4–August 4, 1953, no. 10, ill. p. [26], lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris. Traveled to: Musée Masséna, Nice, France, August 8–September 12, 1953; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, September 15–October 18, 1953.

1954 Paris

Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 53, lent by Musée du Louvre.

1955 Marseille

Musée Cantini, Marseille, France, Les impressionnistes français: de Cézanne à Renoir, 1955, no. 5, ill., as Le vase bleu, c. 1886-1887, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris.

1955 Nice

Musée Masséna, Nice, France, Chefs-d’oeuvre du Musée du Louvre. La peinture française dans la seconde moitié du XIX^e siècle et au début du XX^e siècle, August–September 1955, no. 17, ill., as Le vase bleu, c. 1886-87.

1956 Moscow and traveling

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Peinture française du XIXe siècle, 1956, listed p. 168, ill. p. 169. Traveled to: Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, Poland, June 15–July 31, 1956; Leningrad, Russian Federation, 1956.

1956 Warsaw and traveling

Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, Poland, Malarstwo Francuskie od Davida do Cézanne'a (Peinture française de David à Cézanne), June 15–July 31, 1956, no. 8, pl. 89, c. 1883-87. Traveled to: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 1956; Leningrad, Russian Federation, 1956.

1961–62 Tokyo and traveling

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Exposition d'art français au Japon 1840–1960, November 3, 1961–January 15, 1962, no. 108, ill. p. 24, as Le vase bleu. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, January 26–March 15, 1962.

1964–65 Munich

Haus der Kunst, Munich, Französische Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts, von David bis Cézanne, October 7, 1964–January 6, 1965, no. 25, ill.

1971 Washington, D.C. and traveling

Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 17. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.

1974b Paris

Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 33, ill. in b/w, as Le vase bleu, c. 1885-1887.

1985–86 Bologna

Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy, Morandi e il suo tempo, November 9, 1985–February 10, 1986, no. 120, ill., as Il vaso blu, 1883-87.

1995–96 Paris and traveling

Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 130, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.

1997 Taipei

National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan, L’Age d’or de l’impressionnisme: chefs d’œuvre du musée d’Orsay, January 15–April 27, 1997, ill. p. 231, text pp. 319-320 (French), as Le vase bleu.

1997 Kaohsiung

Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, L’Age d’or de l’impressionnisme: chefs d’œuvre du musée d’Orsay, May 1997, ill. p. 86, text pp. 126-127 and pp. 151-152 (French), as Le vase bleu.

1999–2000 Riehen/Basel

Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 17, ill., p. 70, as Le Vase bleu.

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. 11, ill., as Die blaue Vase.

2001 Warsaw and traveling

Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, Poland, Od Maneta do Gauguina: impresjoniści i postimpresjoniści z Musée d'Orsay w Paryżu [From Manet to Gauguin: Impressionists and Post-Impressionists from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris], January 19–March 25, 2001, p. 72, ill. p. 73, as Le Vase bleu. Traveled to: Muzeum Narodowe, Poznan, Poland, March 31–May 13, 2001; Muzeum Narodowe, Krakow, May 19–July 4, 2001.

2007 Seoul

Hanagaram Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea, De Millet à Bonnard: la création picturale dans les collections du Musée d’Orsay (1848-1914), April 4–September 2, 2007, p. 58, ill. p. 59, as Le Vase bleu.

2011–12 Milan

Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi, October 20, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 25, ill., as Le Vase bleu.

2012 Tokyo

National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 79, ill., and cover.

2013–14 Florence

Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Palazzo Pitti, Impressionisti a Palazzo Pitti : 12 capolavori dal Museo d’Orsay, September 24, 2013–January 5, 2014, n.n., pp. 86-89, ill., as Le vase bleu.

2024–26 Milan

Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne/Renoir, Capolovori dal Musée de l'Orangerie, March 19–June 30, 2024, no. 44, ill. lent by Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Traveled to: Fondation Gianadda, Martigny, France, July 13–November 19, 2024 (Titled: Cézanne - Renoir, Regards croisés); Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, January 17–May 7, 2025; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, May 29–September 7, 2025; Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea, September 20, 2025–January 25, 2026.

Published References

Vollard 1914

Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pls. 1 and 44.

Meier-Graefe 1918a

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 143.

Meier-Graefe 1922

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 175.

Vitry et al. 1922

Paul Vitry, Carle Dreyfus, Paul Leprieur... [et al.]. Catalogue de la Collection Isaac de Camondo. Paris: Musée national du Louvre, 1922, no. 154, as Le Vase bleu. Iris et pois senteur, c. 1890.

Rivière 1923

Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, pp. 209, 212, listed.

Brière 1924

Brière, Gaston. Musée National du Louvre: catalogue des peintures exposées dans les galeries. I, école française. Paris: Musées Nationaux, Palais du Louvre, 1924, p. 24, no. CA. 154, as Le vase bleu, c. 1890.

Glaser 1927

Glaser, Curt. "Das Cézanne-Buch Joachim Gasquets I [and] II." Kunst und Künstler 25, nos. 8 and 9 (1927), ill. p. 286.

Schwabacher 1927

Schwabacher, Sascha. "Die Impressionisten der Sammlung Camondo im Louvre." Der Cicerone 19, no. 12 (1927), p. 376, as Le vase bleu.

Waldmann 1927

Waldmann, Emil. Die Kunst des Realismus und des Impressionismus. Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, 1927, pl. XLI and cover.

Meier-Graefe 1927a

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XLVIII.

Jamot 1929a

Jamot, Paul. "Ecole française: XIXe siècle - 3e partie." In La peinture au musée du Louvre I, Ecole française. Paris: L'Illustration, 1929, p. 78, pl. 58, as Le Vase bleu. Iris et pois de senteur.

Waldmann 1930b

Waldmann, Emil. Paul Cézanne: Acht farbige Gemälde. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1930, pl. 4.

Peschcke-Koedt 1933

Peschcke-Koedt, Matthias. "Statusopgorelse i Malerkunsten." Samleren 10 (December 1933), p. 193, ill.

Rivière 1933

Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 115, ill.

Blot 1934

Blot, Eugène. Histoire d'une collection de tableaux modernes, 50 ans de peinture (de 1882 à 1932). Paris: Editions d'Art, 1934, pp. 36–37.

Besson 1936

Besson, George (introduction). "Paul Cézanne: 1839–1906." Estampes. Paris: Braun & Cie, August 1936 (no. 4), no. 100258 p. 14 (portfolio of 10 color plates).

Faure 1936

Faure, Élie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Braun, 1936, ill.

L'Art sacré 1936

L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle. Special number, Cézanne. Paris, May 1936, fig. 25 p. 32, as Le vase bleu.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 512, ill. vol. II, as Le vase bleu.

Huyghe 1936d

Huyghe, René. Cézanne. Paris: Plon, Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1936, pl. 3.

Novotny 1937

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 45.

Vollard 1937

Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, ill. opp. p. 69.

Besson 1938

Besson, George. Cézanne, 10 Planches en couleurs. Paris: Les Éditions Braune & Cie, 1938(?).

Novotny 1938

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, fig. 45.

Barnes and de Mazia 1939

Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 94, listed (analysis p. 346).

Auzas 1946

Auzas, Pierre. Peintures de Cézanne. Paris: Editions du Chêne, 1946, pl. XIV (in color), as Le Vase bleu, dated 1887–90.

Schildt 1946

Schildt, Göran. Cézanne. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1946, fig. 58.

Adhémar et al. 1947

Adhémar, Hélène et al. Catalogue des peintures et sculptures exposées au Musée de l’Impressionnisme (Jeu de Paume des Tuileries): les impressionnistes, leurs précurseurs et leurs contemporains. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1947, p. 25, no. 37, as Le Vase bleu, c. 1885-1887.

Dorival 1948

Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 99, listed p. 161.

Loran 1952

Loran, Erle. "Cézanne in 1952." Quarterly (Art Institute of Chicago) 46, no. 1 (February 1, 1952), p. 9, ill.

Schapiro 1952a

Schapiro, Meyer. Cézanne. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1952, pp. 76–77, ill.

Hofmann 1953

Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 17, as Stilleben mit blauer Vase, 1883-1887.

Rousseau 1953

Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 17.

Adhémar 1958

Adhémar, Hélène. Catalogue des peintures, pastels, sculptures impressionnistes du Musée du Louvre. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, pp. 24–25, no. 47.

Bazin 1958

Bazin, Germain. Trésors de l'impressionnisme au Louvre. Paris: A. Somogy, 1958, ill. p. 274, c. 1885-1887.

Sterling and Adhémar 1958

Sterling, Charles, and Hélène Adhémar. La Peinture au Musée du Louvre, vol. I. Paris: Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, fig. 264.

Chassé 1960

Chassé, Charles. Les Nabis et leur temps. Lausanne: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1960, pl. 14.

Novotny 1961

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 1961, pl. 26.

Beucken 1962

Beucken, Jean de. Cézanne. New York: Viking Press, 1962, p. 86, ill.

Feist 1963

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Murphy 1968

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Ikegami 1969

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Adhémar et al. 1973

Adhémar, Hélène, and Anne Dayez. Musée du Jeu de Paume. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1973, listed p. 141, ill. p. 23, as Le Vase bleu, c. 1885-87.

Flam 1973

Flam, Jack. Matisse on Art. New York: Phaidon, 1973, pp. 24–25, fig. 25 (p. 24, quoted above).

Schapiro 1973

Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 16 (with comments).

Elgar 1975

Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 72.

Venturi 1978

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Ponente 1980

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Plazy 1981

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Harris 1982

Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, cover.

Lucie-Smith 1984

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Compin et al. 1986

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Flam 1986

Flam, Jack. Matisse: The Man and His Art, 1869–1918. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986, pp. 362–63, fig. 363.

Pickvance and Takumi 1986

Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 56, ill. b/w.

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Lévêque 1988

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Rewald 1989

Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 39, fig. 14.

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Verdi 1992

Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 113, fig. 93.

Baron and Bonafoux 1993

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Kitschen 1995

Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 42.

Patin 1995

Patin, Sylvie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 56.

Sollers 1995

Sollers, Philippe. Le Paradis de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, 1995, p. 35, ill.

Cahn 1995b

Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 73, 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. 675, ill. vol. 2, as Le Vase bleu.

Schmidt 2004a

Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 13 (detail).

Dittmann 2005

Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, pl. 18.

Feilchenfeldt 2005b

Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Sammler. Von Zola bis Annenberg." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 177, ill.

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, p. 310, fig. 82a, as The Blue Vase.

Machotka 2008

Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 282; vol. 2, p. 182, as Le vase bleu.

Novotny 2011

Novotny, Fritz. Paul Cézanne: Gesammelte Schriften zu seinem Werk und Materialien aus dem Nachlaß. Introduction by Gabriel Ramin Schor (editor), Agnes Blaha (assistance). Vienna: Klever, 2011, fig. 45.

Leeman 2013

Leeman, Fred. Emile Bernard (1868–1941). Paris: Wildenstein Institute and Citadelles & Mazenod, 2013, p. 102, fig. 30, Muséé´d'Orsay.

Armstrong 2018

Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 65.

Record last updated June 21, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Vase bleu, 1889–90 (FWN 823)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=655 (accessed on May 1, 2025).