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Paul Cezanne

Geraniums, 1888/1890

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 30.5 x 28.5 cm (12 x 11 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Rewald 1983, no. 213

Accession Number

1995.47.25

Artists / Makers

Paul Cezanne (artist) French, 1839 - 1906

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Marks and Labels

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Provenance

(Ambroise Vollard [c. 1867-1939], Paris); (Bernheim-Jeune, Paris); Maurice Gangnat, Paris; (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 25 June 1925, lot 161 [bought in]); Philippe Gangnat, Paris; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 December 1968, lot 28); purchased by Graham;[1] Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1995.

[1] See published list of prices with buyer names in Sotheby's London 4 December 1968 catalogue.

Associated Names

Bernheim-Jeune
Drouot, Hôtel
Gangnat, Maurice
Gangnat, Philippe
Mellon, Paul
Sotheby's, London
Vollard, Ambroise

Exhibition History

1935: Aquarelles et Baignades de Cézannes. Galerie Renou & Colle, Paris, 3-17 June, 1935 (no catalogue).

1950: Aquarelles de Cézanne. Galerie L.G. Baugin, Paris, 15 May-10 June, 1950, no. 7.

2004: "Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors", The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2004-2005, no. 11.

2009: Cézanne and Beyond, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009, no. 170.

2011: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, 2011, unnumbered catalogue.

2022: Cezanne, Art Institute of Chicago; Tate Modern, London, 2022-2023 (shown only in Chicago).

Bibliography

1925: Collection Maurice Gangnat. Paris, n.d.: no. 161 repr.

1925: Werth, Léon. "La Collection Gangnat." Amour de l'Art (February 1925): 55, repro.

1936: Venturi, Lionello. Cezanne, son art, son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1936.

1952: Schmidt, Georg. Aquarelle von Paul Cézanne. Basel, 1952: pl. 20.

1967: Coplans, John. Cézanne Watercolors. Exh. cat. Pasadena Art Museum, 1967: 10, repr.

1983: Rewald, John. Paul Cezanne: The Watercolors. Boston: Little, Brown and Company (A New York Graphic Society Book), 1983.

1988: Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne by himself: drawings, paintings, writings. London, 1988: no. 104 repr.

2010: Jones, Kimberly A. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2010.