- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1958.292
- People
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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
- Physical Descriptions
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- 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
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- Signed: l.r.: P. Gauguin 89
- Provenance
- [Ambrose Vollard], sold; to Gustave Fayet, Igny, France, 1903, sold; to [Paul Rosenberg, Paris], 1928 [2], sold; to [Wildenstein & Company, New York], sold; to Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Sachs, New York, 1929, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1958
Notes
[1] Vollard is noted in "Gustave Fayet: L'oeil souverain," p. 117, p. 209, note 122
[2] Rosenberg date from "Gustave Fayet: L'oeil souverain," p. 209, note 122 - Acquisition and Rights
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- 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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- Descriptions
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- Description
- The (cradled) panel is mahogany.
- Publication History
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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 Publishing (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)
- Exhibition History
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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
- Subjects and Contexts
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Google Art Project
- Related Works
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