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The Plate of Apples
Paul Cezanne · c. 1877
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
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.
Literature
Published references
- 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.
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