Provenance
Marie Henry, Le Pouldu.
Ida de Cochennec, Rosporden (by descent from the above, by 1950).
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 June 1959, lot 82.
Josefowitz collection, Lausanne (acquired at the above sale).
Private collection, Europe; sale, Christie's, Paris, 23 May 2007, lot 50.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Exhibited
Quimper, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Gauguin et le groupe de Pont-Aven, July-September 1950, p. 38, no. 69 (dated 1889-1890 and titled Vase de Fleurs).
Quimper, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Hommage à Sérusier et aux peintres du groupe de Pont-Aven, July-September 1958, p.15, no. 62 (titled Bouquet de fleurs aux lilas).
Marcq-en-Baroeul, Fondation Septentrion, Autour de Gauguin à Pont-Aven, March-June 1985, p. 44, no. 45 (illustrated; titled Nature morte aux lilas et citrons).
Indianapolis Museum of Art; Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Memphis, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens; San Diego Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven, September 1994-September 1996, p. 108, no. 79 (illustrated in color).
Hartford, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Gauguin's Nirvana: Painters at Le Pouldu, 1889-1990, January-April 2001, pp. 38 and 152, no. 39 (illustrated in color, p. 38, fig. 54; dated circa 1889-1890 and titled Vase of Lilacs with Snowballs and Lemons).
Amsterdam, Joods Historisch Museum; Paris, Musée d'Orsay and Quimper, Musée des Beaux-Arts, A Master Revealed: Meijer de Haan, October 2009-October 2010, pp. 90 and 151, no. 87 (illustrated in color, p. 90; illustrated in color again, p. 151; dated 1889-1890).
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