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Catalogue entry

FWN 867
Le Vase de fleurs
1897–98
Alternate titles: Blumen, Farbenstudie; Blumenstilleben; Stilleben; Vase de fleurs
Rewald (816): 1897–98; Venturi revised: 1895–1900; Venturi (752): 1900–1906; Rivière: 1900(?)
Oil on canvas
15 7/8 x 11 5/8 in. (40.5 x 29.5 cm)
Christie's, London

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Cornelis Hoogendijk, Amsterdam;
Hoogendijk Collection, F. Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, May 21–22, 1912, no. 8 (as Pot de fleurs)
Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne
Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne (July 31, 1926)
Justin K. Thannhauser, New York
Alex Reid & Lefèvre, London
Sotheby's, London, June 30, 1992, no. 11, ill.
Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Neuss
Christie's, London, June 24, 2003, no. 58, ill.
Exhibition History
1912 Barmen
Kunstverein, Ruhmeshalle, Barmen, Germany, Sammlung Reber: Ausstellung alter und neuerer Meister, Autumn 1912, no. 22.
1913 Darmstadt
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, Sammlung G.F. Reber, mid-May–mid-June, 1913, no. 15, as Blumen, Farbenstudie.
1913a Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XV. Jahrgang, 1912–1913, Dritte Ausstellung, Sammlung Reber, Beginning January - January 20, 1913, no. 22, as Stilleben, tentative identification.
1927c Berlin
Galerie Thannhauser, Vereinshaus der Berliner Künstler, Berlin, Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin, January 9–mid-February, 1927, no. 18, as Blumenstilleben, lent by Thannhauser.
1939 Lyon
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 38, lent by Thannhauser.
1939b Paris
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 19, as Vase de fleurs, lent by Thannhauser ("exhibited for the first time").
Published References
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 223 (?)
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 752, ill. vol. II, as Vase de fleurs.
Henkels 1993
Henkels, Herbert. "Cézanne en Van Gogh in het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst in Amsterdam: De collectie van Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866–1911)." Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 41, nos. 3–4 (1993), fig. 167.
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. 816, ill. vol. 2, as Le Vase de fleurs.
Reff 1997a
Reff, Theodore. Review of The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, by John Rewald, in collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. The Burlington Magazine 139, no. 1136 (November 1997), p. 801, expresses his doubts about the attribution.
Kropmanns and Fleckner 2001
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.
Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2016e
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. 157, as Stilleben, listed as probably cat. no. 22 in "1913a Berlin" exhibition.
Rikhof 2023
Rikhof, Maalke. "Symbolist, Post-Impressionist, Cubist, Traditonalist, The Reception of Paul Cézanne in the Netherlands, 1890–1930." In Van Gogh, Cézanne, Le Fauconnier and the Bergen School. Zwolle: Stedelijk Museum and Waanders, 2023. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 47.
Record last updated August 22, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Vase de fleurs, 1897–98 (FWN 867)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=792 (accessed on April 25, 2024).