Geraniums

1888/1890

Paul Cezanne

Associated Names
Paul Cezanne

Artist, French, 1839 - 1906

This painting shows three large potted plants with round green leaves that fill most of the page. The pots are clustered together, their leaves overlapping. The leaves are painted in various shades of green, and the gray-brown pots cast dark gray and blue shadows on the background, which is beige paper.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over graphite on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession Number

    1995.47.25

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rewald 1983, no. 213

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ambroise Vollard [1866-1939], 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

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), cat. 88, repro.

Bibliography

1925

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

  • 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.

2022

  • Borchardt-Hume, Achim, Groom, Gloria Lynn, HAskell, Caitlin, and Sidlina, N.Z., editors. Cezanne. Exh. cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2022: 160, cat. 88.

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Wikidata ID

Q64618927

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