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 3018-16a
Baigneuses
1900–06
Rewald (W602); Venturi revised: 1900–05; Venturi (1103): 1895–1900
Watercolor on wove paper, p. XXXI from the CP IV sketchbook
7 1/16 x 9 13/16 in. (18 x 25 cm) (sight)
Formerly FWN 3018-x1a (updated 8/24/21)
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris, Aquarelles et baignades de Cézanne, June 3–17, 1935.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 179, as Baigneuses, c. 1903, lent by Mme Aline Gobert, Fontainebleau.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 105, Private collection.
Published References
Album Quatre Chemins. Cézanne – Six aquarelles reproduites en fac-similé (Deuxième Album). Paris: Quatre Chemins, n.d. [1936], pl. 6.
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 82, as Baigneuses.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1103, ill. vol. II, as Baigneuses.
Venturi, Lionello. Paul Cézanne: Water-colours. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1943, p. 46, no. 32, ill. (dated 1895-1900), Aline Gobert, Fontaineblau.
Cassou, Jean. Cézanne: Les baigneuses - huit aquarelles reproduites en facsimilé. Paris: Editions des quatre chemins, 1947.
Badt, Kurt. Das Spätwerk Cézannes. Konstanz: Universitätsverlag, 1971, p. 21, fig. 4 (owner confused with that of no. 607).
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 199.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 127, ill., as Baigneuses, 1895-1900.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 602, ill.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. p. 80, p. 279, no. 38, ill. 1895–98.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 179, fig. 129.
Notes
Rewald (1983, p. 243) erroneously described the sheet as having added white strips at the top and at left of the sheet.
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis IV (CP IV), 1881; 1884–1900 (3018)
Sketchbook Chappuis IV (CP IV), 1881; 1884–1900 (3018)
The individual sheets in this sketchbook have been widely dispersed. Each page is numbered in Roman numerals.
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current: Baigneuses, 1900–06 (3018-16a)
Record last updated August 24, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneuses, 1900–06 (FWN 3018-16a), p. XXXI from the CP IV sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1585 (accessed on March 25, 2025).
