The Vase of Tulips
Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)c. 1890
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
The table in this still life of flowers and fruit appears in several of Paul Cezanne’s other paintings, although scholars do not agree about which of the artist’s residences housed this piece of furniture. As is typical of Cezanne’s work, the painting is carefully considered and the composition hard won: the traces of at least three other pieces of fruit (presumably oranges) at lower left and near the vase attest to the artist’s changing opinion as he struggled to make the arrangement work. Even in the final version, there remains a tense spatial relationship between the objects, which seem to float in the picture plane rather than being anchored to the tabletop.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 59.6 × 42.3 cm (23 1/2 × 16 5/8 in.)
Museum record · 3 owners · 24 exhibitions
Provenance
- Victor Choquet (died 1891), Paris; by descent to Mme. Choquet (died 1899), Paris; sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, July 4-5, 1899, lot 13, as Fleur et Fruits; sold for 1,300 francs to Durand-Ruel, Paris.
- Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York.
- Mrs. Annie S. Coburn (died 1932), Chicago by 1932; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
Exhibitions
- Berlin,, Bruno and Paul Cassirer, 1900, no, Grafton Gallery, Pictures by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, January – Ferbruary 1905, as Flowers and Fruit, 1880.
- Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Cézanne, December 1-18, 1920, as Fleurs et fruits.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, April 6 – October 9, 1932, as Flowers and Fruit, ca. 1885.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 1933, as Flowers and Fruit, ca. 1885.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1934, as Flowers and Fruit, ca. 1885.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Works of Cézanne, October 30 – December 17, 1934, as Flowers and Fruit,, c. 1885.
- Cleveland Museum of Art, The Flower in Art, October 31 – December 1, 1935, no cat. Toledo Museum of Art, Cezanne-Gauguin, November 1 – December 13, 1936, as Flowers and Fruit, ca. 1885, traveled to Columbus Museum of Art.
- New York, Durand-Ruel, Cézanne, March – April 1938.
- San Francisco, De Young Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Seven Centuries of Painting: A Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters, December 29, 1939 – January 28, 1940, cat. Y 105, as Flowers and Fruit, ca. 1885.
- New York, Paul Rosenberg, Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne, November – December 1942, as Vase of Tulips, 1890-94.
- Baltimore Museum of Art, Still Life and Flower Paintings, November 2 – December 9, 1945, as Flowers and Fruit, ca. 1885.
- Newark Museum, Flower Paintings by European Masters of the 19th and 20th Centuries, May 10 – June 25, 1950.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Cézanne, Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings: A Loan Exhibition, February-April 1952, traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April – May 1952, as Still Life: Flowers and Fruit, 1890-94.
- Paris, Petit Palais, De Gericault à Matisse – Chefs’d’oeuvre français des collections suisses, 1959.
- New York, Wildenstein and Co., Cézanne, November 5 – December 5, 1959, as Vase de Tulipes, 1890-94.
- New York, Wildenstein and Co., Olympia Progeny, October 27 – November 27, 1965, as Vase de Tulipes, 1890-94.
- Washington, D. C., The Phillips Collection, Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27 – March 28, 1971, traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, April 17 – May 16, 1971 and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, June 1 – June 3, 1971, as The Vase of Tulips, 1890-92.
- Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Paul Cézanne, March 29 – May 19, 1974, traveled to Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, June 1 – July 17, 1974 and Fukuoka Culture Center, July 24 – August 18, 1974, as Vase de Tulipes, 1890-92.
- Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Paul Cezanne, March – April 1984, as Florero con tulipanes, 1890-1892.
- Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces From The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18 – December 17, 1985, traveled to Fukoka Art Museum, January 5 – February 2, 1986 and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4 – April 13, 1986, as Vase of Tulips, c. 1890-92.
- Leningrad, Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago, March 15-May 19, 1988, no cat. no., as Vase of Tulips, c. 1890-92; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988.
- Tokyo, ASAHI, Masterworks of Modern Art From The Art Institute of Chicago, 1994, traveled to Nagaoka, Niiagata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art; and Yokohama Museum of Art, 1994-1995, as The Vase of Tulips, 1890/92.
- Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Cezanne, May 15-Se, 2022; London, Tate, Oct. 5, 2022-Mar. 12, 2023.
