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The Vase of Tulips
by Paul Cezanne
Provenance
Victor Chocquet (1821–1891), Paris; by descent to his wife, Mme. Chocquet (née Marie Buisson; died 1899), Paris; sold, Chocquet Collection, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 4–5, 1899, lot 13, as Fleur et Fruits for 1,300 francs to Durand–Ruel; Galerie Durand–Ruel, Paris and New York [see annotated sale catalogue, the Art Institute of Chicago and Gazette de l’Hôtel Drouot, 4 July 1899; Durand–Ruel stock no. 8154: Cézanne, Fleurs et Fruits 1880, based on label on reverse and information on Registrar Archival Card]. Annie S. Coburn (Mrs. Lewis L. Coburn; 1856–1932), Chicago, May 19, 1924; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.
Exhibition history
Berlin, Bruno and Paul Cassirer, [Group exhibition], 1900, no cat. London, Grafton Gallery, Pictures by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, Jan. 16–Feb. 25, 1905, cat. 46, as Flowers and Fruit, 1880. Paris, Galerie Durand–Ruel, Exposition de natures mortes par Monet, Cézanne, Renoir, etc., Apr. 21–May 12, 1908, cat. 15, as Fleurs et fruits, 1880. Paris, Galerie Bernheim–Jeune, Cézanne, Dec. 1–18, 1920, cat. 9, as Fleurs et fruits. Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, Apr. 6–Oct. 9, 1932, cat. 3, as Flowers and Fruit, c. 1885. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 310, as Flowers and Fruit, c. 1885. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1,1934, cat. 294, as Flowers and Fruit, c. 1885. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cézanne, Nov. 10–Dec. 10, 1934, cat. 16, as Flowers and Fruit, c. 1885. Cleveland Museum of Art, The Flower in Art, Oct. 31–Dec. 1, 1935, no cat. Toledo Museum of Art, Cezanne–Gauguin, Nov. 1–Dec. 13, 1936, cat. 17, as Flowers and Fruit, c. 1885. New York, Durand–Ruel, Cézanne, Mar. 28–Apr. 19, 1938, cat. 12. San Francisco, De Young Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Seven Centuries of Painting: A Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters, Dec. 29, 1939–Jan. 28, 1940, cat. Y–105 (ill.), as Flowers and Fruit, c. 1885. New York, Paul Rosenberg, Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne (1839–1906) for the Benefit of Fighting France, Nov. 19–Dec. 19, 1942, cat. 16 (ill.), as Vase de Tulipes (Vase of Tulips), 1890––94. Baltimore Museum of Art, Still Life and Flower Paintings, Nov. 2–Dec. 9, 1945, cat. 26, as Flowers and Fruit, c. 1885. Newark Museum, Flower Paintings by European Masters of the 19th and 20th Centuries, May 16–June 25, 1950, cat. 1 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Cézanne, Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings: A Loan Exhibition, Feb. 7–Apr. 16, 1952, cat. 85 (ill.), as Still Life: Flowers and Fruit, 1890–94; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Apr.4–May, 18 1952. New York, Wildenstein and Co., Cézanne, Nov. 5–Dec. 5, 1959, cat. 38, as Vase de Tulipes, 1890–94. New York, Wildenstein and Co., Olympia Progeny, Oct. 28–Nov. 27, 1965, cat. 70 (ill.), as Vase de Tulipes, 1890–94. Washington, DC, The Phillips Collection, Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, Feb. 27–Mar. 28, 1971, cat. 19 (ill.), as The Vase of Tulips, 1890–92; Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971. Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Paul Cézanne, Mar. 30May 19, 1974, cat. 45, as Vase de Tulipes, 1890–92; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, June 1–July 17, 1974 and Fukuoka Culture Center, July 24–Aug. 18, 1974. Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Paul Cezanne, Mar.–Apr. 1984, cat. 39, as Florero con tulipanes, 1890–1892. Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces From The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 18–Dec. 17, 1985, cat. 40 (ill.), as Vase of Tulips, c. 1890–92; Fukuoka, Japan, Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5–Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto, Japan Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4–Apr. 13, 1986. Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX–nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu–Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great paintings From the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago], Mar. 15–May 19, 1988, cat. 34, as Vase of Tulips, c. 1890–92; Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, June 10–July 30, 1988. Nagaoka, Japan, Niiagata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modern Art from the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 20–May 29, 1994, cat. 15 (ill.), as The Vase of Tulips, 1890/92; Nagoya, Japan, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama, Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994 (Organized by Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo). Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 66 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–Sept. 5, 2022, cat. 65; London, Tate, Oct. 5, 2022–Mar. 12, 2023 [Chicago only].
Publications
“Revue des Ventes,” Gazette de l’Hôtel Drouot (July 4, 1899), as Fleurs et Fruits. Daniel Catton Rich, “The Bequest of Mrs. L. L. Coburn,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 26 (1932), pp. 64 (ill), 70-71. Tristian-L. Klingsor, Cézanne (1924), pl. 20, as Tulips, illustrated only. Gerstle Mack, Paul Cézanne (New York, 1935), pl. 26, as Nature morte: Pot de fleurs, ca. 1885 (?), illustrated only. Lionello Venturi, Cézanne: son art, son oeuvre vols. 2 (Paris, 1936), no. 617 (ill.), as Vase de Tulipes, 1890-94. Daniel Catton Rich, “Midwest Art Capital,” Town and Country (March 1951), p. 72 (ill.), as The Vase of Tulips. Theodore Rousseau, Jr. “Cézanne, 1839-1906,” Journal of the American Association of University Women 46, 2 (January 1952), pp. 75-77 (ill. inside front cover). Theodore Rousseau, Jr., Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) (New York, 1953), pl. 22, as Tulips and Apples, 1890-94. The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1956), p. 36, as The Vase of Tulips. Mayer Schapiro, Paul Cézanne (New York, 1952), pp. 86-87 (ill.), as Tulips and Apples, 1890-94, reprinted in Paul Cézanne (New York, 1988). The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 72, 327 (ill.), as The Vase of Tulips, 1890/94. Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 (September 1966), p. 203, as Vase of Tulips. Frank Elgar, Cezanne (New York, 1975), pl. 76, as Vase of Tulips, 1890-94. John Rewald, “Chocquet and Cézanne,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts (July-August 1969), p. 83, no. 13, reprinted in John Rewald, Studies in Impressionism (New York, 1985), p. 166, no. 13, as Fleurs et Fruits. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), pp. 100, 101 (ill.), as The Vase of Tulips, 1890-94. The Art Institute of Chicago: 100 Masterpieces (Chicago, 1978), p. 114, no. 67 (ill.), as Vase of Tulips, 1890-92. Joseph-Emile Muller, Cézanne (London, 1983), pl. 34. Richard Brettell, Post-Impressionists (Chicago, 1987), pp. 32 (ill.), 33, 117, as Vase of Tulips, c. 1890/92. Robert Kendall, Cézanne by Himself (London, 1988), p. 189 (ill.), illustrated only. Hortense Anda-Bührle, Magrit Hahnlöser-Ingold, and Charles Moffett, ed., The Passionate Eye: Impressionist and Other Master Paintings From the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, exh. cat. (Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1990), under no. 42, as Tulips and Apples, 1890-92. Martha Kapos, The Post-Impressionists: A Retrospective (New York, 1993), pl. 88, as Vase of Tulips, 1890-92, illustrated only. John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné vols. 2 (New York, 1996), no. 719, as Le Vase de Tulipes, c. 1890. Richard Whelan, Impressionist Flowers: Art of the Bouquet (Chesterfield, 1998), p. 97, ill., as The Vase of Tulips, 1890-94, illustrated only. James N. Wood, ed., Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2000), p. 138 (ill.), as The Vase of Tulips, 1890/92. Derek Fell, Cezanne’s Garden (New York, 2003), p. 104, as Tulips and Apples. Richard Brettell and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum vol. 1 (Pasadena, 2006), p. 310, fig. 82b, as The Vase of Tulips, 1890-92. The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 66, p. 139 (ill.) Achim Borchardt-Hume, Gloria Groom, Caitlin Haskell and Natalia Sidlina, eds., Cezanne, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022), 48, 53-59, 138 cat. 65.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)
- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 59.6 × 42.3 cm (23 1/2 × 16 5/8 in.); Framed: 84.5 × 67 × 10.2 cm (33 1/4 × 26 3/8 × 4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- Post-Impressionism
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1933.423
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