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 868
Bouquet de pivoines dans un pot vert
c.1898
Alternate titles: Bouquet of Peonies in a Green Jar; Fleurs dans un vase bleu; Flowers in a Blue Vase; Pfingstrosenstrauss in grünem Krug
Rewald (875): c.1898; Venturi revised: 1895–1900; Venturi (748): uncertain
Oil on canvas
22 5/8 x 25 13/16 in. (57.5 x 65.5 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3368, Peinture à l'huile représentant des roses très esquissées dans un pot vert, 58 x 66 cm (50 frs)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7158, ébauche de fleurs, 57 x 65 cm
Vollard archives: photo no. 214, (Musée d'Orsay)
Private collection, New York
Provenance
Private collection, Paris
Private collection
Private collection, New York
Exhibition History
Adams Gallery, London, French Paintings, May 24–June 30, 1950, no. 5, as Flowers in a Blue Vase.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 26, pl. 160. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 20, ill.
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, L'oeuvre ultime: de Cézanne à Dubuffet, July 4–October 4, 1989, no. 3, ill., as Bouquet de pivoines dans un pot vert, c. 1890.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 51, ill., as Bouquet de pivoines dans un pot vert, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Blumenmythos: von Vincent van Gogh bis Jeff Koons / Flower Myth: Vincent van Gogh to Jeff Koons, February 27–May 22, 2005, no. 18, ill., as Pfingstrosenstrauss in grünem Krug, lent by Private collection.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Unfinished: Thoughts left visible, March 18–September 4, 2016, p. 164, pl. 123, as Bouquet of Peonies in a Green Jar, text p. 280.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 748, ill. vol. II, as Fleurs dans un vase bleu.
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. 875, ill. vol. 2, as Bouquet de pivoines dans un pot vert.
Anfam, David. "Flower Myth, Basel." The Burlington Magazine 147, no. 1226 (May 2005), p. 348, as Cézanne's unfinished magisterial jar of peonies.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 386; vol. 2, p. 244, as Bouquet de pivoines dans un pot vert.
Golding, John. "Cézanne, Braque and Pictorial Space." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009, p. 261, fig. 9.3, as Bouquet of Peonies in a Green Jar.
Record last updated June 14, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Bouquet de pivoines dans un pot vert, c.1898 (FWN 868)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=928 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
