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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 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
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Edgar Degas, Paris;
Degas Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, Mar. 26–27, 1918, no. 105
G. & L. Bollag, Zurich;
Bollag, Zurich, April 3, 1925, no. 41, pl. 16; bought in
Bollag, Zurich, Sept. 28, 1932, no. 43
Max Bollag, Zurich
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, New York (by 1956);
Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, New York (1984)
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.1936c Paris
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.1937a London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June 1937, no. 35, as Trois poires, dated 1885–95, lent by M Bollag.1956c New York
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cezanne Watercolors, January 30–February 18, 1956, no. 10, ill. lent by Henry Pearlman collection.1958 Baltimore
The Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Anonymous Collection [Pearlman Collection], July–September 1958, no. 16.1959 Cambridge, Mass.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Drawings, Watercolors and Oils by Paul Cézanne, Lent by an Anonymous Collector, July 1–September 1, 1959, no. 9.1959g New York
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, 1888.1963f New York
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.1963b New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Cézanne and Structure in Modern Painting, June–August 1963, no no.1964 Brooklyn
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, The Pearlman Collection, May 22–October 15, 1964, no. 6.1965 Utica
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, Watercolors by Paul Cézanne from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, 1965, no. 1.1967 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne and His Contemporaries: The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman Collection, June 14–October 1, 1967, no. 10, ill.1967 Pasadena
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, Cézanne watercolors, November 10–December 10, 1967, no. 15.1968b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Collects, July 3–September 2, 1968, no. 7.1970 Hartford
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism: The Mr. & Mrs. Henry Pearlman Collection of Works, June 10–October 4, 1970, no. 12.1971 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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, 1971.1971a New York
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. 8.1973 New York
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.1974 Brooklyn and traveling
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, 1976.1977 Princeton
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne Watercolors and Prints, September 25–October 16, 1977, no number listed.1980 Princeton
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne Watercolors and Drawings in the Pearlman Collection, February 5–April 17, 1980, no number listed.1981 Princeton
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne Watercolors from the Pearlman Collection, April 21–June 24, 1981, no number listed.1984 Princeton
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.1997–98 New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, October 1, 1997–February 11, 1998, no. 115.2002–03 Princeton
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne in focus : watercolors from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection, October 19, 2002–January 12, 2003. (Exhibition catalogue: Simms 2002), no. 2, ill.2004–05 Los Angeles
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. 1888-90.2009 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, ill., pl. 103, p. 302.2014–16 Oxford and traveling
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, 2016.2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 199, Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation.Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1136, ill. vol. II, as Trois poires.Pissarro 1943
Pissarro, Camille. Letters to His Son Lucien. Edited by John Rewald. New York: Pantheon, 1943, p. 277.Neumeyer 1958
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 54.Portfolio of Watercolors 1965
[Portfolio of] Watercolors by Cézanne from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman. Utica, 1965.Boisdeffre et al. 1966
Boisdeffre, PIerre, Pierre Cabanne, Raymond Cogniat. Cézanne. Collection Génies et Réalités. Paris: Hachette, 1966, p. 163, ill.Murphy 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 123.Portfolio of Watercolors 1972
[Portfolio of] Watercolors by Cézanne from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman. Utica: Munson-William-Proctor Institute, 1972.Manet 1979
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 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 298, ill.Terrasse 1995
Terrasse, Antoine. Les aquarelles de Cézanne. Paris: Flammarion, 1995, pp. 72-3, ill.Ives et al 1997
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.Schmidt 2004a
Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 43.Simms 2008
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 87, fig. 60.Simms 2014b
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 2015
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 18, 2024).
