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 2245
Baigneuses, deux lutteurs et tête de garçon
1871–73 (wrestlers), 1873–76 (female bather), c. 1878 (son)
Alternate title: Woman bather, two men wrestling, boy's head
Chappuis (361)
Graphite on paper
7 3/16 x 10 5/16 in. (18.2 x 26.2 cm)
Exhibition History
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 20, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 154, as Woman bather, two men wrestling, boy's head, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 48, ill., p. 57.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 64, ill. lent by Kunstmuseum Basel. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 146, ill. p. 58.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 105, pl. 37.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 49, ill., as Baigneuses, deux lutteurs et tête de garçon, 1871-78, lent by Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 85, ill.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 16, Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett.
Published References
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, no. 83, ill.
Cooper, Douglas. "Untitled." Review of Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle, by Adrien Chappuis. Master Drawings, vol. 1, no. 4 (Winter 1963), p. 56.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 94, ill. dated c. 1876.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 361, ill., as Woman bather, two men wrestling, boy's head.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 22, ill.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, fig. 3-2b p. 39, p. 282, no. 65, ill. 1872–73.
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, p. 192, fig. 74.
Ruppen, Fabienne. "Paul Cézanne's Loose Sheets in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Kunstmuseum Basel." In The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 222, fig. 4 (illustrated upside down).
Record last updated September 10, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneuses, deux lutteurs et tête de garçon, 1871–73 (wrestlers), 1873–76 (female bather), c. 1878 (son) (FWN 2245)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2019 (accessed on May 3, 2025).
