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 802
Nature morte
c.1890
Alternate titles: Apfel und Birne; Nature morte, assiette et fruits
Rewald (677): c.1890; Venturi revised: 1875–77; Venturi (206): 1873–77; Gowing: c.1887
Oil on canvas
11 x 15 7/8 in. (28 x 40.5 cm)
Provenance
Barbara and Martin Zweig, New York;
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 39, as Apfel und Birne, tentative identification, lent by Graf Kessler.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Renoir and the Post-Impressionists, June 14–July 1930, no. 11.
Glasgow Art Museum, Glasgow, United Kingdom, XIX–XX Century French Painting, October 1930, no. 17.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 41, as Nature morte, c. 1887, lent by anonymous. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 43. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Acquavella Galleries, New York, XIX and XX Century Master Paintings, May 12–June 12, 1982, no. 6, ill.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 57, ill.
Gagosian, Hong Kong, Cézanne, Morandi, and Sanyu, March 26–May 11, 2019.
Published References
Zervos, Christian. "De l'importance de l'objet dans la peinture d'aujourd'hui." Cahiers d'Art, no. 3 (1930), p. 115, fig. 7.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 31.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 206, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte.
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. 677, ill. vol. 2, as Nature morte.
Walter, Sabine. "Die Sammlung Harry Graf Kessler in Weimar und Berlin." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, p. 74, listed p. 87, p. 71 (fig. 11; photograph, Louis Held, c. 1905, of the still life hanging in Graf Kessler's drawing room, Weimar).
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 284; vol. 2, p. 184, as Nature morte.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 174, fig. 68.
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. 421, as Nature morte, assiette et fruits, erroneously listed as Private collection Flechtheim.
Rosebrock, Tessa. "Four Champions of Modernism, Cézanne's Supporters and Intermediaries in Germany During the Imperial Era." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 7.
Record last updated June 15, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Nature morte, c.1890 (FWN 802)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=657 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
