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 852
Sucrier, poires et tapis
1893–94
Alternate titles: Birnen und Porzellan; Früchtestilleben; Les poires et le sucrier blanc; Nature morte; Nature morte, sucrier et poires; Poires au sucrler; Stilleben mit Birnen; Stilleben mit Birnen, Zuckerdose und Tapisserie; Stilleben mit Marmeladedose; Sucrier et poires; Sugar Bowl, Pears and Tablecloth (Sucrier, poires et tapis); Sugarpot, Pears and Tablecloth; The White Sugar Bowl
Rewald (771): 1893–94; Venturi revised: 1893–95; Venturi (624): 1890–94; Rivière: 1885; Cooper: c.1894
Oil on canvas
20 1/16 x 24 3/8 in. (50.9 x 62 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3533, nature morte à l'huile. sur une table en bois blanc des fruits, un morceau d'étoffe et un sucrier, 50 x 62 cm (300 frs)
Vollard X stockbook: no. 5190, nature morte
Vollard archives: photo no. 78, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1880
Provenance
Private collection, Boston
Exhibition History
Institut français, Mansion of Yusupova (42 Liteiny Avenue), St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, [Exposition centennale de l'art français, 1812-1912], opening January 15, no. 588m, as Sucrier et poires, lent by Vollard.
Manzi, Joyant & Cie, l'Hôtel de la revue "Les Arts," Paris, Exposition d'art moderne, June 6–July 6, 1912, no number, [lent by Vollard].
Kunstverein, Ruhmeshalle, Barmen, Germany, Sammlung Reber: Ausstellung alter und neuerer Meister, Autumn 1912, no. 20.
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, Sammlung G.F. Reber, mid-May–mid-June, 1913, no. 12, as Stilleben mit Birnen.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XV. Jahrgang, 1912–1913, Dritte Ausstellung, Sammlung Reber, Beginning January - January 20, 1913, no. 20, as Stilleben mit Birnen.
Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin, Das Stilleben in der Deutschen und Französischen Malerein von 1850 bis zur Gegenwart, mid-February–mid-March 1927, no. 88, ill., p. 85, as Birnen und Porzellan, lent by Reber.
Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, Ausstellung Französischer Meister des XIX Jahrhunderts aus Frankfurter Privatbesitz ergänzt durch sechs Gemälde von Cézanne als Leihgabe der Sammlung G.F. Reber, Lugano, October 16–November 16, 1927, no. 6, as Früchtestilleben.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec, February 6–March 26, 1941, no. 7.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Masterpieces of Philadelphia Private Collections, May 20–September 15, 1947, no. 37.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection, 1949.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, June 15–July 31, 1962, no. 2, ill., and on cover, as Sucrier, poires et tapis, 1890-94.
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, French Masterpieces of the 19th Century from the Henry P. McIlhenny Collection, May 1–September 18, 1977, no number.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections, July 19–August 21, 1983, no. 16, ill. lent by McIlhenny, Philadelphia.
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 25, ill.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 89, ill., as Sucrier, poires et tapis, lent by Private collection, Japan. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Impressionist Still Life, September 22, 2001–January 13, 2002, pp. 176, 178, pl. 81, as Sugarpot, Pears and Tablecloth, lent by POLA Art Foundation, Japan, shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 17–June 9, 2002.
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, Four Attractions: Figure, Still Life, Landscape, Bather, October 6–November 25, 2007, no. 4.
Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan, Cézanne, Pioneer of Modern Art, April 4–September 27, 2015, no. 43, ill. lent by Pola Museum of Art.
National Gallery, London, After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, March 25–August 13, 2023, no. 6, ill., as Sugar Bowl, Pears and Tablecloth (Sucrier, poires et tapis).
Published References
Bluemner, Oscar. "Audiator et altera pars: Some Plain Sense on the Modern Art Movement." Camera Work (June 1913), pl. II.
Denis, Maurice. "Cézanne: I [and] II." Kunst und Künstler 12, no. 4 and no. 5 (1914), ill p. 214.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 172.
Coquiot, Gustave. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Ollendorf, 1919, ill. p. 128 (opposite), as Les poires et le sucrier blanc.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 208.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 213, listed, ill. p. 173, as Nature morte.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 80, as Stilleben mit Marmeladedose, c. 1885 (Photo: Thannhauser).
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LXXIII.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 24], as Nature morte.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 624, ill. vol. II, as Sucrier, poires et tapis.
Wehle, Harry B. "French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 36, no. 2 (February 1941), p. 34, as The White Sugar Bowl.
Canaday, John. Mainstreams of Modern Art. New York: Holt, 1959, p. 345, fig. 417, frontispiece, detail in color.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 140.
Von der Heydt Museum. Der westdeutsche Impuls 1900–1914, Kunst und Umweltgestaltung im Industriegebiet, Stadtenwicklung, Sammlungen, Austellungen. Günter Aust, ed.. Wuppertal: Von der Heydt Museum, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, p. 149, ill., as Stilleben mit Birnen, Zuckerdose und Tapisserie, ex-Reber collection.
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. 771, ill. vol. 2, as Sucrier, poires et tapis.
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." 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, listed p. 388.
Masterpieces of the Pola Museum of Art
Paintings. Kanagawa: Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2002, no. 28.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Sammlung Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Barmen: Anfang Januar bis 20. Januar 1913." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1912-1914 vol. 6, "Eine neue Klassik". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 151, ill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 27, ill., as Nature morte, sucrier et poires.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 45.
Record last updated October 4, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Sucrier, poires et tapis, 1893–94 (FWN 852)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=748 (accessed on December 2, 2024).
