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The Plate of Apples
by Paul Cezanne
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower right: P.Cezanne
Provenance
Eugène Murer, Auvers–sur–Oise and Paris, before Oct. 1887 [see Trublot 1887 and Rewald 1996]. Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Munich, by 1916 [Berlin 1916]. F. Schoen, Berlin [accordind to correspondence from P. Rosenberg and Co. to W. Brewster, Feb. 25, 1930, copy in curatorial file]. Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sept. 29, 1925 [this and the following according to Rewald 1996; Paul Cassirer archive, PC18965]. J. K. Thannhauser, Lucerne, Switzerland, Feb. 2, 1926. Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York and Paris, by 1930 [this and the following according to Rosenberg to Brewster, Feb. 25, 1930]; sold to Walter S. Brewster, Chicago, (1872–1954), Feb. 15, 1930; Kate L. Brewster (Mrs. Walter S. Brewster; 1879–1947), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.
Exhibition history
Berlin, Galerie Thannhauser, Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin, Jan. 9–mid-Feb., 1927, cat. 14 (ill.) as Stilleben. Chicago, Brewster residence, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, Jan. 20–22, 1933, cat. 6, as Assiette des Fruits, about 1883. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Fruit and the Flower Paintings, May 13–31, 1933, no cat. New York, Marie Harriman Gallery, Chardin and the Modern Still Life, Nov. 1936, cat. 12. Cedar Rapids, IA, Coe College, Centennial Exhibition, May 15–June 9, 1952, cat. 14. New York, Fine Arts Associates, Cézanne: Rarely Shown Works, Nov. 10–29, 1952, cat. 4 (ill.), as Le Plat de Pommes. Aix-en-Provence, France, Musée Granet, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 5–Aug. 5, 1953, cat. 21, as Le Plat de Pommes, c. 1887; Nice, France, Musée Massena, Aug. 8–Sept. 10, 1953 ; Grenoble, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Sept. 15–Oct. 6, 1953. Worcester, MA, Worcester Museum of Art, The Dial and the Dial Collection, Apr. 30–Sept. 8, 1959, cat. 10. Memphis, TN, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Impressionists in 1877: A Loan Exhibition, Dec. 4, 1977–Jan. 8, 1978, cat. 8 (ill.). Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27–Aug. 31, 1980, cat. 33 (ill.), as 1877. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Classic Cézanne, Nov. 28, 1998–Feb. 28, 1999, cat. 9 (ill.). New York, Museum of Modern Art, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–Sept. 12, 2005, cat. 25 (ill.), as c. 1874; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oct. 20, 2005–Jan. 16, 2006; Paris, Musée d'Orsay, as Cézanne et Pissarro, 1865–1885, Feb. 27–May 28, 2006. Fort Worth, TX., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 34 (ill.). Paris, Musée Luxembourg, Cezanne et Paris, Oct. 12, 2011–Feb. 26, 2012, cat. 55 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–Sep. 5, 2022, cat. 33 (ill.); London, Tate, Oct. 5, 2022–Mar. 12, 2023.
Publications
Trublot [Paul Alexis], “La Collection Murer,” Le Cri du people (October 21, 1887), no. 7. Katalog der Modernen Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser (Munich 1916), p. 30 (ill.). The Dial 81 (1926), p. 359. Kurt Pfister, Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos (Potsdam, 1927), pl. 76. Eugenio d’Ors, Paul Cézanne (Paris, 1930), pl. 23. Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art, son oeuvre (Paris, 1936), no. 210. Robert J. Goldwater, “Cézanne in America: The Master’s Paintings in American Collections ,” Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (Mar. 26, 1938): 158 (ill.). Daniel Catton Rich, “The Kate L. Brewster Bequest,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 44, 3 (1950), p. 51 The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1956), p. 36. Kurt Badt, Die Kunst Cézannes (Munich 1956), p. 123. P. Gachet, Deux Amis des impressionistes–Le Dr. Gachet et Murer (Paris, 1956), p. 171. L. Gowing in Burlington Magazine (June 1956), p. 188. Robert William Ratcliffe, Cezanne's Working Methods and Their Theoretical Background. Dissertation Thesis, University of London, 1960, 247-48 The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 71. Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 (September 1966), p. 203. Richard Shiff in Critical Inquiry (Summer 1978), fig. 12. Richard Shiff, Cézanne and the End of Impressionism (Chicago, 1984), p. 209, fig. 48. Michael Howard, Cézanne (London, 1990), p. 73 (ill.) John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York, 1996), vol. 1, p. 223, no. 328, vol. 2, p. 105. The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 34, p. 82 (ill.). Rpbert Storr, "La Famille Cezanne," Cézanne and Beyond, Exh, cat (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009), Fig 2.4, p. 48, p. 50. Achim Borchardt-Hume, Gloria Groom, Caitlin Haskell and Natalia Sidlina, eds., Cezanne, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022), 52-53, 59n33, 104 cat. 33.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)
- Date
- c. 1877
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 45.8 × 54.7 cm (18 1/8 × 21 1/2 in.); Framed: 71.8 × 82.6 × 10.2 cm (28 1/4 × 32 1/2 × 4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- Post-Impressionism
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Kate L. Brewster
- Accession no.
- 1949.512
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