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Catalogue entry

© 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)
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (BF190)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Cornelis Hoogendijk, Amsterdam
Paul Rosenberg, Paris (1920)
[Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris]
Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Merion (July 1,1920);
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia
Exhibition History
1911 Amsterdam
Moderne Kunstkring, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Internationale tentoonstelling van moderne kunst, October 6–November 5, 1911, no number, Hoogendijk collection.
Published References
Mullen 1923
Mullen, Mary. An Approach to Art. Merion, PA: The Barnes Foundation Press, 1923, p. 35, ill.
Barnes 1925b
Barnes, Albert C. The Art in Painting. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1925, pp. 481, 484–85.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 740, ill. vol. II, as La grosse poire.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
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 1971
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 1973a
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 1977a
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 149.
Reff 1979b
Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 36.
De Mazia 1979–80
De Mazia, Violette. "Transferred Values: Part III." Vistas 1, no. 2 (Autumn-Winter), pl. 71.
De Mazia 1980
De Mazia, Violette. "Subject and Subject Matter." Vistas 2, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 1980), pl. 72.
De Mazia 1981–83a
De Mazia, Violette. "Subject and Subject Matter: Part II." Vistas 2, no. 2, pl. 81.
De Mazia 1988–89
De Mazia, Violette. "The Nature of Form." Vistas 4, no. 2 (1988–89), pl. 93.
Rewald 1989
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 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. 43.
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. 842, ill. vol. 2, as La grosse poire.
Machotka 2008
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 2014
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 2017
Bernstein, Roberta. Jasper Johns: Redo an Eye. New York and New Haven: Wildenstein Plattner Institute with Yale University Press, 2017, p. 74, ill.
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. 80 p. 96.
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, 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 April 24, 2024).