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Catalogue entry

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; 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)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Claude Monet, Giverny (Dec.1, 1898);
Michel Monet, Giverny
Georges Bernheim, Paris, and Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (May 7, 1929)
Bernheim-Jeune, Lausanne (Aug. 29, 1929)
Josef Stransky, New York (on temporary loan to the Worcester Art Museum)
Wildenstein Galleries, New York (Nov. 1936)
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (May 1939)
Exhibition History
1907b Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Fleurs et natures mortes, November 14–30, 1907, no. 10, as Le pot, lent by Monet.
1929 New York
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.
1934 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 21, (dated c. 1885), as Still life, lent by Stransky.
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 97, as Nature morte, lent by succession Stransky.
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. 20. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
1988–89b London and traveling
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).
1998–99 Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 12, ill., as Pot de gingembre.
2001–02 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 55, ill. 1893, catalogued, but not shown. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
2022–23 Raleigh
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.
Published References
Flint 1931
Flint, Ralph. "The Private Collection of Josef Stransky." Art News XXIX, no. 33 (May 16, 1931).
Flament 1936
Flament, Albert. "Tableaux de Paris: Peinture." La Revue de Paris (Paris) (September 1936), p. 949, as Nature morte.
Huyghe 1936b
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 1936b
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 1937
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, ill. opp. p. 84.
Kimball and Venturi 1948
Kimball, Fiske, and Lionello Venturi. Great Paintings in America: One Hundred and One Masterpieces in Color. New York: Coward-McCann, 1948, no. 91, ill.
Phillips Collection 1952
Catalogue: A Museum of Modern Art and Its Sources. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection, 1952, pl. 70, as Pomegranates and Pears.
Phillips 1970
Phillips, Marjorie. Duncan Phillips and His Collection. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970, p. 192, ill.
D'Harnoncourt 1971
D'Harnoncourt, Anne. "The Necessary Cézanne." Art Gallery 14, no. 6 (April 1971), p. 36, ill.
Elderfield 1971
Elderfield, John. "Drawing in Cézanne." Artforum 9, no. 10 (June 1971), p. 56, ill.
Reff 1977a
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne on Solids and Spaces." Artforum 16, no. 2 (October 1977), ill. p. 37.
Reff 1977c
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 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, p. 28, ill.
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 183, ill.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 187, ill.
Lévêque 1988
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 189, ill. in color.
Düchting 1989
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 191, ill.
Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 287, fig. 2.
Kitschen 1995
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 45.
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. 735, ill. vol. 2, as Pot de gingembre.
Armstrong 2004
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 2008
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 2009
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 2009
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 2009a
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 2014
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 2017
Lobstein, Dominique. "Paul Cézanne in the Monet Collection." In Monet Collectionneur [Monet, The Collector]. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 172.
Marchesseau 2017
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 252, ill.
Mathieu and Lobstein 2017
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 2018
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 60, 1893.
Société Paul Cezanne 2019
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 2020
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, Ireson and Patry 2021
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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Record last updated May 1, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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 March 28, 2024).