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 831
Bouteille de liqueur
c.1890
Alternate titles: Bouteille de liqueurs; Fruit and Wine; La Bouteille treillissée; Still Life with Bottle; Still Life with Fruit and Wine; Still Life – Pears and Brandy
Rewald (681): c.1890; Venturi revised: c.1895; Venturi (606): 1888–90; Ratcliffe: possibly 1886, on account of Cassatt letter, but does not consider her reliable
Oil on canvas
21 3/8 x 25 7/8 in. (54.2 x 65.7 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3750, une table portant une nap[p]e de poires et une bouteille, 54 x 65 cm
Vollard archives: photo no. [353] and 64, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1888
Provenance
Private collection, Japan
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 35, as La Bouteille treillissée, lent by Mrs. Montgomery Sears.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, May 3–September 15, 1921, no. 9, as Still Life – Pears and Brandy, lent by Bliss.
Brooklyn Academy of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, New York, Summer Exhibition of Modern French and American Painters, June 12–October 14, 1926, lent by Miss Bliss.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Miss Lillie P. Bliss, May 17–September 27, 1931, no. 10, ill., as Fruit and Wine. Traveled to: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, October 17–December 15, 1931; John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, January 1932.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Lillie P. Bliss Collection, May 14–September 12, 1934, no. 6 (?)
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November 10–December 10, 1934, no. 24, (dated c. 1885–88), as Fruit and Wine, lent by Museum of Modern Art.
Carnegie Art Institute, Pittsburgh, Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Lillie P. Bliss Collection, March 13–April 10, 1935, no. 15 (?), as Fruit and Wine.
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, French Paintings from the Lillie P. Bliss Collection, April 23–May 19, 1935, no. 3, as Fruit and Wine.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, June 26–October 4, 1936, no. 256.
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Painters of Still Life, January 25–February 15, 1938, no. 50.
New York World's Fair, New York, Masterpieces of Art, May–October 1940, no. 344, as Still Life with Fruit and Wine, lent by MoMA.
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, The Art of the Third Republic: French Painting, 1870–1940, February 22–March 16, 1941, no. 6, ill., as La Bouteille treillissée, 1885-88, lent by the Museum of Modern Art.
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 22, ill.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 88, ill., as Bouteille de liqueur, lent by Private collection, Japan. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Homage to Cézanne: His Influence on the Development of Twentieth Century Painting, November 15, 2008–January 25, 2009, no. 121, ill., as Bouteille de liqueur, lent by Pola Museum of Art. Traveled to: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, February 7–April 12, 2009.
Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan, Cézanne, Pioneer of Modern Art, April 4–September 27, 2015, no. 26, ill. lent by Pola Museum of Art.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 70, ill. lent by Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa.
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie, February 27–July 5, 2020, no. 56, ill. lent by Pola Museum of Art, Hakone.
Published References
McBride, Henry. "Important Cézannes in Arden Galleries." The Sun (New York), March 4, 1917, p. 12, ill.
Klein, Jerome. The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1934, no. 6.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 606, ill. vol. II, as Bouteille de liqueurs.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1942, p. 30, no. 93, as Fruit and Wine.
Weitzenhoffer, Frances. The Havemeyers: Impressionism Comes to America. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 142, pl. 103.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 189, ill. in color.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 25–26, 94, 130, 163, 298, 306, 327, 337, figs. 7 and 148.
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. 681, ill. vol. 2, as Bouteille de liqueur.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Motive: Versuch einer neuen Ordnung." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 209, ill.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 175, pl. 69.
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. 216, fig. 2, as Still Life with Bottle.
Record last updated July 6, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Bouteille de liqueur, c.1890 (FWN 831)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=660 (accessed on September 8, 2024).
