Still Life with Commode

Artists

Dimensions

63.8 x 79.9 cm (25 1/8 x 31 7/16 in.) framed: 90.8 x 107 x 8.9 cm (35 3/4 x 42 1/8 x 3 1/2 in.)

Provenance

[Ambrose Vollard, Paris]. [Moderne Gallery (Justin Thannhauser), Munich]. Samuel Fischer, Berlin, by descent; to Brigitte and Gottfried Bermann-Fischer, his daughter and son-in-law, Vienna, 1934, sold [through Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam] [1]; to [Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York, 1936], [2] sold; to Maurice Wertheim, New York, 1944, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1951 Notes [1] The painting was put on consignment with Paul Cassier, Amsterdam in April 1933 by Samuel Fischer [2] The painting was lent to two Cezanne exhibitions in 1939, organized by Paul Rosenberg, by R.P.A. It is unclear if this is Rosenberg or another owner. Rosenberg deposits what is probably this painting, for unknown reasons, for a brief time at the Fogg at the end of 1940. In the exhibition catalogue for Rosenberg’s 1942 Cezanne exhibition, the work is lent anonymously.