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Paul Cézanne

Roses in a Bottle [recto], 1900/1904

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 43.6 x 31 cm (17 3/16 x 12 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Rewald 1983, no. 550

Accession Number

1995.47.26.a

Artists / Makers

Paul Cézanne (artist) French, 1839 - 1906

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 42X

Provenance

(Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris, by 1936);[1] (Galerie Alfred Daber, Paris); Private collection, Paris; (Paul Rosenberg, New York); Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA, by 1983; gift to NGA, 1995.

[1] See Lionello Venturi, Cézanne Son Art - Son Oeuvre. Paul Rosenberg Éditeur, Paris, 1936, no. 1542.

Associated Names

Daber, Alfred
Mellon, Paul
Rosenberg, Paul
Vollard, Ambroise

Exhibition History

1977: Cézanne: The Late Work. Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1977-1978, no. 71 (recto only).

1978: Cézanne, Les dernières années (1895-1906). Grand Palais, Paris, 1978, no. 29bis (recto only).

Bibliography

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

1943: Venturi, Lionello. Paul Cézanne--Water Colours. London, 1943: 21, pl. 13 (recto); pl. 9 (verso).

1946: Schildt, G. Cézanne. Stockholm, 1946: fig. 55 (recto); fig. 65 (verso).

1979: Cooper, Douglas. Review of "Cezanne: The Late Work." books and bookmen (April 1979).

1979: Rewald, John. Letter to editor. books and bookmen (September 1979).

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