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 614
Une moderne Olympia (Le Pacha)
c.1870
Alternate titles: A Modern Olympia; Eine moderne Olympia; La nouvelle Olympia; Le Divan; Le Pacha; Olympia; The Pasha; Una moderna Olympia; Une moderne Olympia; Une moderne Olympia (or Le Pacha)
Rewald (171): c.1870; Venturi revised: c.1870; Venturi (106): 1870; Rivière: 1875
Oil on canvas
22 x 21 5/8 in. (56 x 55 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4455, Olympia (6000/20000 frs)
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection;
Private collection, Japan;
Private collection
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 16, ill., as Une moderne Olympia, lent by Lecomte.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 19, pl. VIII, lent by private collection, Paris.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 40, ill. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19, 1988–January 1, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 29–April 30, 1989.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 4, discussed pp. 83–92, pl. 50.
Grand Palais, Paris, Impressionnisme: Les origines, 1859–1869, April 19–August 8, 1994, no. 32, p. 351, fig. 162. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Origins of Impressionism, September 19, 1994–January 8, 1995.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 27, ill. shown in London and Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Bordell und Boudoir. Schauplätze der Moderne: Cézanne, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, January 22–May 22, 2005, no. 13, ill. p. 71 and p. 10 (detail), as Eine moderne Olympia, 1869-70.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 28, fig. 237, pp. 224, 336–37, as Une moderne Olympia (or Le Pacha), lent by Private collection. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 96.
Coquiot, Gustave. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Ollendorf, 1919, p. 213, ill. p. 144 (opposite), as Le Pacha.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 109, as Olympia, 1879.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 202, listed, ill. opp. p. 50, as Le Pacha, dated 1875, Pellerin.
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 391, as Le Divan.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 16–17, fig. 3, pl. III.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XI.
Burroughs, Alan. "David and Cézanne, Presenting the Case of Thought versus Feeling." The Arts 16, no. 1 (September 1929), p. 111, ill.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 53, ill.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 46.
Laprade, Jacques de. "L'exposition Cézanne à l'Orangerie." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 177 (May 22, 1936), ill. p. 1, as La nouvelle Olympia.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 106, ill. vol. II, as Une moderne Olympia.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 56.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 33, ill. p. 178 (analysis p. 314).
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 53, ill.
Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Flammarion, 1950, fig. 3, pl. 1.
Florisoone, Michel. "Van Gogh et les peintres d'Auvers chez le Dr. Gachet." L'Amour de l'art 31, nos. 64-66 (November, 1952), p. 20, ill.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 16, pl. III fig. 3, as The Pasha.
Lövgren, Sven. The Genesis of Modernism. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1959, p. 33, ill.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne and Delacroix." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 1 (March 1964), fig. 9.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 56, ill.
"The Elusive Goal." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 74, ill.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Cézanne's Bathers: Form and Content." Arts Magazine 54, no. 9 (May 1980), p. 115.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 201, fig. 107.
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 15.
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. 171, ill. vol. 2, as Une moderne Olympia (or Le Pacha).
Kitschen, Friederike. "Cézannes Hüte - zu einigen Selbstporträts von Paul Cézanne." Pantheon, Internationale Jahreszeitschrift für Kunst 66 (1998), ill., p. 121.
Soichita, Victor I. "L'oeuvre, la cabeza, el ventre." Arte y Parte: revista de arte (Madrid) 30 (December 2000-January 2001), ill. p. 57, as Una moderna Olympia.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 126, 200, fig. 32, as Une moderne Olympia (or Le Pacha).
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 310, no. 261, ill., as Une moderne Olympia (Le Pacha), c. 1870.
Tosini, Aurora Scotti. "Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)." In Cézanne, Renoir. Milan: Skira, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 49, ill.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Motive: Versuch einer neuen Ordnung." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 203, ill.
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, fig. 15, ill.
Lanchner, Carolyn. "Cézanne and Giacometti: An Odd Couple." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 386, fig. 14.5, as A Modern Olympia, Private collection.
Vial, Marie-Paule. "Olympia." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 98, fig. 44, as Une moderne Olympia.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 307, pl. 139.
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, pl. 4.
Rey, Xavier. "Courbet, Cézanne: Le nu en question." In Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 92, fig. 4.
Jeancolas, Claude. Le Groupe des Batignolles, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Bazille, Cezanne, Monet, Morisot, Astruc, Zola…1865–1874. Paris: Editions FVW, 2014, p. 129, ill.
Guégan, Stéphane. "Bienheureux Cézanne, Retour sur les années 1860." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 52, fig. 5.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 260, ill., as Une moderne Olympia.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 6.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Une moderne Olympia (Le Pacha), c.1870 (FWN 614)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=11 (accessed on December 8, 2024).
