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 3018-19a
Baigneuses
1902–06
Alternate titles: Bathers; Weibliche Badende (Baigneuses)
Rewald (W608); Venturi revised: 1900–05; Venturi (1105): 1900–06; Rivière: 1904 or c.1897; Other: Andersen: c.1900
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper, probably p. XXXVII from the CP IV sketchbook
8 1/4 x 10 5/8 in. (21 x 27 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris, Aquarelles et baignades de Cézanne, June 3–17, 1935.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 118, ill., pl. 200, as Bathers, 1902-06, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 103, ill. in b/w, as Baigneuses, 1902-06, lent by Private collection.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 120, ill., as Weibliche Badende (Baigneuses), 1902-1906, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 93a, pl. 195.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 61, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. "Sur les dernières années de Cézanne." Minotaure, no. 9 (1936), fig. 10.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1105, ill. vol. II, as Baigneuses .
Cassou, Jean. Cézanne: Les baigneuses - huit aquarelles reproduites en facsimilé. Paris: Editions des quatre chemins, 1947.
Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950, fig. 141.
Andersen, Wayne V. "Watercolor in Cézanne's Artist Process." Art International 7 (May 25, 1963), p. 27, ill.
Hofmann, Werner. Das irdische Paradies: Motive und Ideen des l9. Jahrhunderts. Munich: Prestel, 1974, fig. 267.
Cabinet des dessins, Album 6. Cézanne: Aquarelles. Paris: Henri Scrépel, 1975, ill.
Perucchi-Petri, Ursula. "Die Aquarelle von Paul Cézanne und die Kunst Ostasiens." Du 42, no. 4 (September 1982), p. 22, ill.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 608, ill.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 279, no. 41, ill. 1905–06.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 309; vol. 2, p. 210, as Baigneuses .
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 181, fig. 131.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 203, fig. 141.
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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facing: missing sheet (3018-18b)
current: Baigneuses, 1902–06 (3018-19a)
Record last updated January 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneuses, 1902–06 (FWN 3018-19a), probably p. XXXVII 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=1591 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
