The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
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FWN 862
Nature morte aux pommes et melons
c.1895
Alternate titles: Fruchtstilleben; Nature morte; Nature morte aux Fruits et Pot de Gingegembre; Still Life with Apples and Melons; Stilleben mit Früchten und Ingwertopf; Stilleben mit Melonen
Rewald (802): c.1895; Venturi revised: 1893–95; Venturi (596): 1890–94
Oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 24 in. (46 x 61 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3881, huile; table chargé de petit melon -- dans une assiette plusieurs tranches un pot de grès fond gris bleu, 46 x 61 cm (200 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895, tentative identification.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 35, as Fruchtstilleben, tentative identification, lent by Bruno Cassirer.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Französische Maler des XIX. Jahrhunderts, May 14–August 6, 1933, no. 87, as Stilleben mit Melonen, c. 1890.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 232, ill. p. 103, as Nature morte (46 x 61.3cm).
Published References
Natanson, Thadée. "Paul Cézanne." La Revue Blanche 9, no. 50 (December 1, 1895), p. 498 (?)
Bernard, Émile. "Erinnerungen an Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 6, nos. 10-12 (1908), p. 428, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 596, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 56.
Manchester Guardian, February 22, 1958, p. 1, ill. as A little-known still-life.
Baker, Christopher, and Tom Henry. The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue. London: National Gallery Publications, 1995, p. 108, ill., as Still Life with Apples and Melons, c. 1890-04.
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. 802, ill. vol. 2, as Nature morte.
Buschhoff, Anne. "Paula Modersoh-Becker und Paris. Fünf Vorbemerkungen; Lanschaften; Figurenbilder; Stillleben." In Paula Modersohn-Becker und die Kunst in Paris um 1900 - Von Cézanne bis Picasso. Munich: Hirmer, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 194, fig. 3, as Stilleben mit Früchten und Ingwertopf, c. 1895.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 384; vol. 2, p. 244, as Nature morte.
Affinité Elective, Wahlverwandschaft, Die Sammlung Esther Grether. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2013, p. 97, ill. in color, as Nature morte aux Fruits et Pot de Gingegembre.
Record last updated February 22, 2025. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Nature morte aux pommes et melons, c.1895 (FWN 862)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=778 (accessed on May 18, 2025).
