The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 3007-x3a
Trois poires
c.1882
Alternate titles: Birnenstilleben; Drei Birnen; Nature marte avec trois poires; Stilleben mit drei Birnen; Stilleben mit drei Birnen (Nature morte avec trois poires); Stillleven van drie peren; Three Pears
Rewald (W196); Venturi revised: 1875–77; Venturi (859): 1879–82
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper, page removed possibly from the BS III sketchbook
4 15/16 x 8 3/16 in. (12.5 x 20.8 cm)
Keywords
- Still-life objectsEdibles and Flowers:
Provenance
Exhibition History
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Teekeningen van Ingres tot Seurat, December 20, 1933–January 21, 1934, no. 11, as Stillleven van drie peren.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Meisterzeichnungen französischer Künstler von Ingres bis Cézanne, June 29–August 18, 1935, no. 184, as Birnenstilleben, Aquarell, lent by Herr Franz Koenigs, Haarlem.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 68, as Drei Birnen, c. 1880, lent by F. Koenigs, Haarlem.
Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam, Fransche meesters uit de XIX eeuw: teekeningen, aquarellen, pastels [...], July–August 1938, no. 2.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Teekeningen van Fransche meesters 1800 - 1900, February 1946, no. 12.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 83, ill., as Stilleben mit drei Birnen (Nature morte avec trois poires), 1880-82, lent by Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (Inv.-No. F II 210). Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Impressionism: through clear eyes, September 19–November 29, 1992, no. 13, ill.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 52, ill., as Trois poires, c. 1882, lent by Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen; shown in Vienna only. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 16, ill. p. 298, as Nature marte avec trois poires, lent by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, ill., pl. 105, p. 304.
Albertina, Vienna, Impressionismus: Pastelle, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, October 14, 2011–January 8, 2012, no. 13, ill., as Stilleben mit drei Birnen, 1880-1882, lent by Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 859, ill. vol. II, as Trois poires.
Hoetink, Bernard. Franse Tekeningen uit de 19e Eeuw. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1968, no. 28, dated c. 1890.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 196, ill.
Halperin, Joan Ungersma. Félix Fénéon, Aesthete and Anarchist in Fin-de-Siècle Paris. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988, p. 224, ill.
Wadley, Nicholas. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing. New York: Penguin Books, 1991, p. 207, ill.
Bach, Friedrich Teja. "The Stake in the Pictorial Flesh: Disruptions in Cézanne's Oeuvre." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 65, fig. 3, as Three Pears, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 200; vol. 2, p. 137, as Trois poires.
Haldemann, Anita (ed.). The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 282, listed as a work formerly in the Basel III sketchbook, unpaginated.
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Basel III, 1878–1881 and 1897–1900 (3007)
Sketchbook Basel III, 1878–1881 and 1897–1900 (3007)
This sketchbook probably contained fifty-three or fifty-four sheets. The pages are numbered on the "a" side in Roman numerals at bottom right. Some sheets were sold separately in the 1930s and have been identified based on stains from an oil-binding agent or rust spots left when the sketchbook was unbound.
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Record last updated November 10, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Trois poires, c.1882 (FWN 3007-x3a), page removed possibly from the BS III sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1176&sketchbook=3007 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
