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 881
Bouquet de fleurs
1900–03
Alternate titles: Bouquet; Le Bouquet de fleurs; Vase of Flowers
Rewald (893): 1900–03; Venturi revised: 1895–1900; Venturi (757): 1902–3; Rivière: 1902–3; Vollard: 1900–1903
Oil on canvas
40 x 32 3/8 in. (101.5 x 82.2 cm)
Vollard X stockbook: no. 5195, fleurs, 100 x 81cm
Vollard archives: photo no. 276, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1900
Provenance
Exhibition History
Manzi, Joyant & Cie, l'Hôtel de la revue "Les Arts," Paris, Exposition d'art moderne, June 6–July 6, 1912, no number, tentative identification.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Loan, 1916.
Modern Gallery [de Zayas], New York, Paintings by Cézanne, January 25, 1916.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Paintings and Drawings by Representative Modern Masters, April 17–May 9, 1920, as Bouquet, hors catalogue, lent by Mrs. Meyer.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, May 3–September 15, 1921, no. 22, as Vase of Flowers, lent by Meyer.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 31. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi, October 20, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 32, ill., as Bouquet de fleurs, lent by National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, The World is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne, June 14–September 22, 2014, pl. 9, p. 76. Traveled to: Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, November 1, 2014–January 31, 2015.
Published References
"Art Notes: Still Cezanne." The New York Times (New York), Jan. 29, 1916, p. 8, as Le Bouquet de fleurs.
"List of Accessions and Loans, April 1916." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 11, no. 5 (1916), p.121, listed as being on loan from Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Jr.
"Exhibitions in the Galleries: The Bouquet de Fleurs." Arts and Decoration 6, no. 5 (March 1916), p. 240, as Le Bouquet de fleurs.
Cortissoz, Royal. "Cézanne at His Best, and What That Best is Worth." New York Tribune, March 4, 1917, ill. p. 3.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 224, listed.
"List of Accessions and Loans, October 1923." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 18, no. 11 (November 1923), listed.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 757, ill. vol. II, as Bouquet de fleurs.
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.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 135.
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 1509, p. 59 ill., as Vase of Flowers.
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 162.
Naumann, Francis M. "Walter C. Arensberg: Poet, Patron and Participant in New York Avant-Garde 1915–20." Bulletin of the Philadelphia Museum of Art 26, no. 328 (1980), pp. 100–01, fig. 14.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 302, 305–06, fig. 154.
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. 893, ill. vol. 2 and p. 46, ill. col. vol. 1, as Bouquet de fleurs.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Sammler. Von Zola bis Annenberg." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 184, ill.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 312, ill.
Record last updated September 9, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Bouquet de fleurs, 1900–03 (FWN 881)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=867 (accessed on February 16, 2025).