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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)
Catalogue entry
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
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam
Franz Koenigs, Haarlem (1930);
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1940)
Exhibition History
1933–34b Rotterdam
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Teekeningen van Ingres tot Seurat, December 20, 1933–January 21, 1934, no. 11, as Stillleven van drie peren.1935 Basel
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.1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 68, as Drei Birnen, c. 1880, lent by F. Koenigs, Haarlem.1938c Amsterdam
Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam, Fransche meesters uit de XIX eeuw: teekeningen, aquarellen, pastels [...], July–August 1938, no. 2.1946 Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Teekeningen van Fransche meesters 1800 - 1900, February 1946, no. 12.1982 Tübingen and traveling
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, 1982.1992 Rotterdam
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Impressionism: through clear eyes, September 19–November 29, 1992, no. 13, ill.2000 Vienna and traveling
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).2008 Humlebæk
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.2009 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, ill., pl. 105, p. 304.2012 Vienna
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 859, ill. vol. II, as Trois poires.Hoetink 1968
Hoetink, Bernard. Franse Tekeningen uit de 19e Eeuw. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1968, no. 28, dated c. 1890.Siblík 1969
Siblík, Jiří. Paul Cézanne: Kresby [Drawings]. Prague: Odeon, 1969, fig. 66.Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 196, ill.Halperin 1988
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 1991
Wadley, Nicholas. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing. New York: Penguin Books, 1991, p. 207, ill.Bach 2000
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 2008
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 et al 2017
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.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, 2024).
