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)
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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 865
Grosse poire
1895–98
Alternate titles: La grosse poire; The Large Pear
Rewald (842): 1895–98; Venturi revised: 1895–1900; Venturi (740): 1895–1900; Reff: 1897–98
Oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 21 5/8 in. (46 x 55 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Moderne Kunstkring, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Internationale tentoonstelling van moderne kunst, October 6–November 5, 1911, no number, Hoogendijk collection.
Published References
Mullen, Mary. An Approach to Art. Merion, PA: The Barnes Foundation Press, 1923, p. 35, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 740, ill. vol. II, as La grosse poire.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 55, p. 190, ill. (analysis pp. 318–23).
De Mazia, Violette. "Aesthetic Quality." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 2, no. 1 (Spring), pp. 11–12, 14–15, 16–17, 25, pl. 9.
De Mazia, Violette. "Creative Distortion: The Case of the Levitated Pear." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 4, no. 1 (Spring 1973), pl. 10.
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 149.
Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 36.
De Mazia, Violette. "Transferred Values: Part III." Vistas 1, no. 2 (Autumn-Winter), pl. 71.
De Mazia, Violette. "Subject and Subject Matter." Vistas 2, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 1980), pl. 72.
De Mazia, Violette. "Subject and Subject Matter: Part II." Vistas 2, no. 2, pl. 81.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 271, fig. 132.
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. 43.
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. 842, ill. vol. 2, as La grosse poire.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 390; vol. 2, p. 246, as La grosse poire.
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's Color Lab: Not-So-Still-Life." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 122, fig. 12, as The Large Pear.
Bernstein, Roberta. Jasper Johns: Redo an Eye. New York and New Haven: Wildenstein Plattner Institute with Yale University Press, 2017, p. 74, ill.
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. 80 p. 96.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 46, pp. 213–22, as The Large Pear (catalogue notes by C. Armstrong).
Record last updated February 22, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Grosse poire, 1895–98 (FWN 865)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=817 (accessed on May 20, 2025).
