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 754
Trois poires
1878–79
Alternate titles: Le tre pere; Les trois poires; Nature morte; Pere
Rewald (345): 1878–79; Venturi revised: 1873–77; Venturi (201): 1873–77
Oil on canvas
8 1/8 x 10 3/16 in. (20.5 x 26 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Biennale, Venice, Italy, Mostra Individuale di Paul Cézanne, April 15–October 31, 1920, no. 8, (dated 1875), as Pere, lent by Fabbri.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 23, as Les trois poires, lent by Fabbri.
Valentine Gallery, New York, Four Paintings by Cézanne, 1939, II, ill., as Trois poires.
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cézanne: Rarely Shown Works, November 10–29, 1952, no. 3, ill. lent by Mme Guillaume.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Signac collectionneur, October 12–February 13, 2021, no. 46, ill., as Trois poires.
Published References
Henraux, Lucien. "I Cézanne della raccolta Fabbri." Dedalo vol. 1, no. 1 (1920), ill. p. 53, as Le tre pere, 1875.
L.[ucien] H.[enraux]. "Une grande collection de Cézanne en Italie: la collection Egisto Fabbri." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 11 (November 1924), ill. p. 338, as Nature morte.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 201, ill. vol. II, as Trois poires.
Rewald, John. "Paintings by Paul Cézanne in the Mellon Collection." In Essays in Honor of Paul Mellon, Collector and Benefactor, edited by John Wilmerding. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1986, pp. 303–06, fig. 10.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 25.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 345, ill. vol. 2, as Trois poires.
Bardazzi, Francesca, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Translated by John Venerella. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 260, fig. 11, as Trois poires.
Notes
Egisto Fabbri, an early Cézanne collector and a painter himself, once owned this still life and made a faithful copy of it (see Rewald, 1996, p. 231). He copied other paintings in his collection, notably Le Garçon au gilet rouge, 1888–90 (497).
Egisto Fabbri, A Corner of the Artist's Studio, Paris, oil on canvas, 18 x 15 inches. Also in the background are two still lifes (FWN754 and 769), also belonging to Fabbri.
Record last updated March 24, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Trois poires, 1878–79 (FWN 754)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=341 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
