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 1944
Trois poires
1888–90
Alternate titles: Three Pears; Trois poires
Rewald (W298); Venturi revised: 1886–88; Venturi (1136): 1885–95; Neumeyer: 1888
Graphite and watercolor on laid paper
9 1/2 x 12 3/16 in. (24.2 x 31 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 123, pl. XL, as Trois poires, c. 1888, lent by Galerie Bollag, Zurich.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June 1937, no. 35, as Trois poires, dated 1885–95, lent by M Bollag.
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cezanne Watercolors, January 30–February 18, 1956, no. 10, ill. lent by Henry Pearlman collection.
The Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Anonymous Collection [Pearlman Collection], July–September 1958, no. 16.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Drawings, Watercolors and Oils by Paul Cézanne, Lent by an Anonymous Collector, July 1–September 1, 1959, no. 9.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, A loan exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman for the benefit of Greenwich House, January 27–February 21, 1959, no. 24, ill. in b/w, as Trois poires, 1888.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 34, pl. XXXII, as Trois poires, 1890-95, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, New York.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Cézanne and Structure in Modern Painting, June–August 1963, no no.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, The Pearlman Collection, May 22–October 15, 1964, no. 6.
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, Watercolors by Paul Cézanne from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, 1965, no. 1.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne and His Contemporaries: The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman Collection, June 14–October 1, 1967, no. 10, ill.
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, Cézanne watercolors, November 10–December 10, 1967, no. 15.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Collects, July 3–September 2, 1968, no. 7.
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism: The Mr. & Mrs. Henry Pearlman Collection of Works, June 10–October 4, 1970, no. 12.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, hors catalogue, shown in Boston only. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Loan 1971: Paintings from New York Collections: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman and the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, July 13–September 7, 1971, no. 8.
Paul Rosenberg & Co, New York, Sixteen watercolors by Cezanne on loan from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, October 16–November 16, 1973, no. 1, ill.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Paintings, Watercolors, Sculptures and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, May 22–September 29, 1974, no. 32, ill. Traveled to: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, December 8, 1974–March 14, 1975; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, April 13–August 31, 1975; Francine and Sterling Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, September 26, 1975–February 22, 1976; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, April 6–May 30, 1976.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne Watercolors and Prints, September 25–October 16, 1977, no number listed.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne Watercolors and Drawings in the Pearlman Collection, February 5–April 17, 1980, no number listed.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne Watercolors from the Pearlman Collection, April 21–June 24, 1981, no number listed.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation and the Collection of Mrs. Rose Pearlman, September 22–November 4, 1984, no number listed.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, October 1, 1997–February 11, 1998, no. 115.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne in focus : watercolors from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection, October 19, 2002–January 12, 2003, no. 2, ill.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolor, October 12, 2004–January 2, 2005, pl. 21, as Three Pears, c. 1888-90.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, ill., pl. 103, p. 302.
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection, March 13–June 22, 2014, no. 7, ill. c. 1888-90. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, July 11–October 5, 2014; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 25, 2014–January 11, 2015; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, February 7–May 18, 2015; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, September 12, 2015–January 3, 2016.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 199, Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1136, ill. vol. II, as Trois poires.
Pissarro, Camille. Letters to His Son Lucien. Edited by John Rewald. New York: Pantheon, 1943, p. 277.
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 54.
[Portfolio of] Watercolors by Cézanne from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman. Utica, 1965.
Boisdeffre, PIerre, Pierre Cabanne, Raymond Cogniat. Cézanne. Collection Génies et Réalités. Paris: Hachette, 1966, p. 163, ill.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 123.
[Portfolio of] Watercolors by Cézanne from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman. Utica: Munson-William-Proctor Institute, 1972.
Manet, Julie. Journal (1893–1899): sa jeunesse parmi les peintres impressionnistes et les hommes de lettres. Paris: Klincksieck, 1979, p. 74 (diary entry of Nov. 29, 1895, quoted above).
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 298, ill.
Ives, Colta, Susan Stein, Julie Steiner with Ann Dumas, Rebecca Rabinow and Gary Tinterow. The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, A Summary Catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. Exhibition catalogue, p. 17, no. 115, ill.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 87, fig. 60.
Simms, Matthew. "Painting on Drawing and Cézanne's Watercolors." In Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 153, fig. 96 (cat. 7).
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 293, fig. 210.
Record last updated June 11, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Trois poires, 1888–90 (FWN 1944)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1279 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
