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 824
Pot de primevères et fruits sur une table
c.1890
Alternate titles: Apples and Primroses; Le begonia; Pommes et fleurs; Pommes sur une table; Pot de géraniums et fruits; Pot de géraniums et pommes; Still Life; Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses; Still Life with Pot of Geraniums; Stilleben mit Äpfeln und Primeln
Rewald (680): c.1890; Venturi revised: 1890–93; Venturi (599): 1890–94
Oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 36 3/8 in. (73 x 92.4 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Fleurs et natures mortes, November 14–30, 1907, no. 6, as Le begonia, lent by Monet, apparently this work was for sale.
Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, Cinquante ans de peinture française, 1875-1925, May 28–July 12, 1925, no. 12, as Pommes sur une table, 1886, lent by Monet.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 29, ill., as Still Life, lent by A. Lewisohn.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 70, pl. XXXVII, as Pot de géraniums et pommes, lent by A. Lewisohn.
New Burlington Galleries, London, Exhibition of Masters of French 19th Century Painting, October 1–31, 1936, no. 89, pl. IX, as Pot de géraniums et fruits, lent by Lewisohn.
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Cézanne and Gauguin, November 1–December 13, 1936, no number.
Palais National des Arts, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvres de l'art français [World's Fair], June–October 1937, no. 253, pl. 114, as Pot de géraniums et pommes, lent by Lewisohn.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, Cézanne, March 28–April 19, 1938, no. 18, ill.
New York World's Fair, New York, Masterpieces of Art, May–October 1940, no. 346, ill., as Still Life with Pot of Geraniums, lent by Lewisohn.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Art in Progress: 15th Anniversary Exhibition, May 1944, no number, ill.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 51, ill. lent by Lewisohn.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Lewisohn Collection, November 2–December 2, 1951, no. 13, ill., p. 43.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 83, ill. lent by Metropolitan Museum. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Vier Eeuwen Stilleven in Frankrijk, July 10–September 20, 1954, no. 109.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800–1920, February 4–May 6, 2007, no. 76, ill.
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Französische Meisterwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 1–October 7, 2007, listed p. 207, ill., as Stilleben mit Äpfeln und Primeln.
Published References
Paul Cèzanne - Mappe. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1912, pl. 10, as Stilleben mit Äpfeln und Primeln.
Bourgeois, Stephan, and Waldemar-George. "L'art français du XIXe et du XXe siècles à la collection Adolphe et Samuel Lewisohn." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, nos. 28–29 (1932), ill. between pp. 306 and 307.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle, special number, Cézanne (May 1936), p. 8, fig. 15 p. 17, as Pommes et fleurs.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 599, ill. vol. II, as Pot de géraniums et fruits.
"Cezanne's Paintings and Watercolors Exhibited in Fine One Man Loan Show at the Paris Orangerie." The Art News XXXIV, 39 (Aug. 15, 1936), p. 6, ill., as Pot de géraniums et pommes.
Huisman, Georges. Histoire-guide de la peinture française. Paris: Denoel, 1937, p. 38, ill.
Raynal, Maurice. Cent trente chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art français. Paris: Arts et métiers graphiques, 1937, p. 140, ill.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 28.
Huisman, Georges (introduction). "La rétrospective d'art français." L'Amour de l'art 18, no. 5 (May 1937), fig. 90, p. 38, as Pot de géraniums et pommes.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 143, ill.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 121, listed (analysis p. 363).
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 68, as Pot de géraniums et fruits, 1886-90.
Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis. Les Peintres provençaux de Nicolas Froment à Paul Cezanné. Paris: La Jeune Parque, 1947, p. 89, ill.
Louchheim, Aline Bernstein. "Cezanne: Link in Art." The New York Times (New York) (April 6, 1952), p. 22, ill., as Apples and Primroses.
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. "Notes." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 10, no. 9 (May 1952), ill. on cover.
Fussiner, Howard. "Organic Integration in Cézanne's Painting." College Art Journal 15, no. 4 (Summer 1956), pp. 302–12, ill.
Sterling, Charles, and Margaretta M. Salinger. French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. III. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1967, p. 102, ill.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 134.
Salinger, Margaretta. "Windows Open to Nature." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 27, no. 1 (Summer 1968), ill.
Baetjer, Katherine. European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, p. 26, ill. p. 615.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 39.
Moffett, Charles S. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985, pp. 184–85, ill.
Baron, Jean-Marie and Pascal Bonafoux. Cézanne: Les Natures Mortes. Paris: Editions Herscher, 1993, p. 39, ill.
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. 680, ill. vol. 2, as Pot de primevères et fruits sur une table.
Warman, Jayne. "Cézanne peintre des peintres." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 167, fig. 83, as Pot de primevères et fruits sur une table.
Patin, Sylvie. Monet's Private Picture Gallery at Giverny. Montreuil: Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2016, p. 135, ill.
Lobstein, Dominique. "Paul Cézanne in the Monet Collection." In Monet Collectionneur [Monet, The Collector]. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 168, fig. 34.
Mathieu, Marianne, and Dominique Lobstein with the collaboration of Claire Gooden. "Vue synoptique de la collection Monet." In Monet Collectionneur [Monet, The Collector]. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 268–69, listed and ill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 25, ill.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 59.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 217, fig. 3, as Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses.
Smith, Paul. "Cezanne's Non-Constructive Line." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 1.
Record last updated May 2, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Pot de primevères et fruits sur une table, c.1890 (FWN 824)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=659 (accessed on January 16, 2025).
