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 839
Pot de gingembre
1890–93
Alternate titles: Ginger Pot with Pomegranate and Pears; Le pot; Nature morte; Nature morte au vase; Pomegranates and Pears; Pot de gingembre et poires; Still life; Vase paillé et fruits sur une table
Rewald (735): 1890–93; Venturi revised: 1893–95; Venturi (733): 1895–1900; Machotka et al: 1892–93
Oil on canvas
18 1/4 x 21 7/8 in. (46.4 x 55.6 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Fleurs et natures mortes, November 14–30, 1907, no. 10, as Le pot, 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. 25, ill., (dated c. 1885), as Still life, lent by Stransky.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November 10–December 10, 1934, no. 21, (dated c. 1885), as Still life, lent by Stransky.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 97, as Nature morte, lent by succession Stransky.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 20. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
The Hayward Gallery, London, Master Paintings from the Phillips Collection, Washington, May 19–August 14, 1988, no. 28, ill., as Ginger Pot with Pomegranate and Pears. Traveled to: Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, August 27–November 6, 1988 (Meisterwerke aus der Phillips Collection, Washington); Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, November 30–February 15, 1988 (Obras maestras de la Colección Phillips de Washington).
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 12, ill., as Pot de gingembre.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Impressionist Still Life, September 22, 2001–January 13, 2002, pp. 176, 177, pl. 80, as Ginger Pot with Pomegranate and Pears, lent by Phillips Collection. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 17–June 9, 2002.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 55, ill. 1893, catalogued, but not shown. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, A Modern Vision: European Masterworks from the Phillips Collection, October 8, 2022–January 22, 2023, as Ginger Pot with Pomegranate and Pears.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Up Close with Paul Cezanne, April 18–July 14, 2024.
Published References
Flint, Ralph. "The Private Collection of Josef Stransky." Art News XXIX, no. 33 (May 16, 1931).
Flament, Albert. "Tableaux de Paris: Peinture." La Revue de Paris (Paris) (September 1936), p. 949, as Nature morte.
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 64 p. 178, as Nature morte au vase, c. 1887.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 733, ill. vol. II, as Vase paillé et fruits sur une table.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, ill. opp. p. 84.
Kimball, Fiske, and Lionello Venturi. Great Paintings in America: One Hundred and One Masterpieces in Color. New York: Coward-McCann, 1948, no. 91, ill.
Catalogue: A Museum of Modern Art and Its Sources. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection, 1952, pl. 70, as Pomegranates and Pears.
Phillips, Marjorie. Duncan Phillips and His Collection. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970, p. 192, ill.
D'Harnoncourt, Anne. "The Necessary Cézanne." Art Gallery 14, no. 6 (April 1971), p. 36, ill.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne on Solids and Spaces." Artforum 16, no. 2 (October 1977), ill. p. 37.
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 48, ill.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, p. 28, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 189, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 191, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 287, fig. 2.
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 45.
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. 735, ill. vol. 2, as Pot de gingembre.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 91, fig. 38, as Ginger Pot with Pomegranate and Pears, 1893.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 296; vol. 2, p. 189, as Pot de gingembre.
Joosten, Joop M. "Cézanne and Mondrian: 'A New Way to Express the Beauty of Nature.'" In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 137, ill., p. 426, pl. 147, as Ginger Pot with Pomegranate and Pears.
Taylor, Michael R. "Learning from 'Papa Cézanne': Arshile Gorky and the (Self-) Invention of the Modern Artist." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 426, pl. 147, as Ginger Pot with Pomegranate and Pears.
Shiff, Richard. "Lucky Cézanne (Cézanne Tychique)." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 81, ill., p. 426, pl. 147, as Ginger Pot with Pomegranate and Pears.
Leca, Benedict. "'The Painter of Apples': Cézanne, Still Life, and Self-Fashioning." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 69, fig. 9, as Ginger Pot with Pomegranate and Pears.
Lobstein, Dominique. "Paul Cézanne in the Monet Collection." In Monet Collectionneur [Monet, The Collector]. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 172.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 252, ill.
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, p. 269, listed and ill. (also p. 35, fig. 4).
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 60, 1893.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 179 p. 187.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 19, ill., as Nature morte.
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. 230, fig. 1, as Ginger Pot with Pomegranate and Pears.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Pot de gingembre, 1890–93 (FWN 839)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=713 (accessed on April 27, 2025).
