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Object Number

1958.292

People

Paul Gauguin, French (Paris 1848 - 1903 Fatu-Iwa [Marquesas Islands])

Title

Still Life with Apples, a Pear, and a Ceramic Portrait Jug

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Still Life, Apples, Pear and Ceramic

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1889

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/228202

Medium

Oil on paper mounted on panel

Dimensions

28.6 x 36.2 cm (11 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.)
frame: 43.5 x 52.4 x 2.9 cm (17 1/8 x 20 5/8 x 1 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r.: P. Gauguin 89

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Walter E. Sachs

Accession Year

1958

Object Number

1958.292

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Description

The (cradled) panel is mahogany.

Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1929), no. 52

A loan exhibition of Paul Gauguin, for the benefit of the New York Infirmary, exh. cat., Wildenstein Galleries (New York, NY, 1946), no. 25, p. 65; repr. p. 40

Paul Gauguin: His Place in the Meeting of East and West, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Houston, TX, 1954), no. 27

Loan exhibition: Gauguin, for the benefit of the Citizens' Committee for Children of New York City, Inc., exh. cat., Wildenstein & Company (New York, NY, 1956), no. 40, p. 18; repr. p. 54

Gauguin: paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1959)

Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1964), no. 405, repr. p. 155

Merete Bodelsen, Gauguin's Ceramics: A Study in the Development of His Art, Faber & Faber Limited (London, England, 1964), repr. in b/w fig. 112, p. 161; text, p. 160

Marla Prather and Charles F. Stuckey, Gauguin: a Retrospective, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. (New York, NY, 1987), repr. as colorplate 49, p. 161

Michael Hoog, Paul Gauguin: Life and Work, Rizzoli (New York, NY, 1987), repr. in color p. 131, pl. 88

Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 108, repr. as no. 393

The Maurice Wertheim Collection and Selected Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings and Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1990), repr. in color no. 24, p. 79

Isabelle Cahn and Antoine Terrasse, Gauguin und die Schule von Pont-Aven, exh. cat., Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung (München, Germany, 1998), no. 19, p. 59, repr. in color

Eric M. Zafran, ed., Gauguin's Nirvana: Painters at Le Pouldu 1889-90, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, CT, 2001), p. 150; repr. in color p. 36

Eliza E. Rathbone and George T.M. Shackelford, Impressionist Still Life, exh. cat., The Phillips Collection (Washington, DC, 2001), p. 166, repr. as pl. 75; p. 208

Belinda Thomson, ed., Gauguin: Maker of Myth, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publications (London, 2010), checklist p. 241, pl. 38

Stéphane Guibourgé, Alexandre d'Andoque, and Magali Rougeot, Gustave Fayet: L'oeil souverain, Editions du Regard (Paris, 2015), pp. 117, 209 note 122

Cornelia Homburg and Christopher Riopelle, Gauguin: Portraits, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada and National Gallery (Ottawa/London, 2019), cat. no. 112, p. 209, repr. p. 205 as ill. 112, repr. pp. 16-17 (detail)

French Painting of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/06/1929 - 04/06/1929

A Loan Exhibition of Paul Gauguin, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 04/03/1946 - 05/04/1946

Paul Gauguin, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 01/01/1954 - 12/31/1954

Gauguin, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 04/05/1956 - 05/05/1956

Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 02/12/1959 - 03/29/1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 04/23/1959 - 05/31/1959

Unidentified Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1959, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 04/21/1959 - 05/31/1959

The Example of Pissarro, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/20/1981 - 07/03/1981

The Maurice Wertheim Collection and Selected Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings and Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Isetan Department Store, Tokyo, 03/01/1990 - 04/10/1990; Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, 04/14/1990 - 05/13/1990

Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 06/26/1996 - 09/12/1996

Gauguin und die Schule von Pont-Aven, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, 08/27/1998 - 11/15/1998

Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000

Gauguin's Nirvana : painters at Le Pouldu 1889-90, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 01/26/2001 - 04/29/2001

Impressionist Still Life, The Phillips Collection, Washington, 09/22/2001 - 01/13/2002; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 02/17/2002 - 06/09/2002

Gauguin: Maker of Myth, Tate Modern, London, 09/30/2010 - 01/16/2011; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 02/21/2011 - 06/05/2011

Ancient to Modern, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 06/01/2013

32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/12/2016 - 07/14/2017

Gauguin: Portraits, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 05/24/2019 - 09/08/2019; National Gallery, London, 10/07/2019 - 01/26/2020

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