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Catalogue entry

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)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett

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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Werner Feuz, Bern
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett (1935)
Exhibition History
1973 Newcastle upon Tyne and traveling
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.
1979 Rome
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 48, ill., p. 57.
1986 Tokyo and traveling
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.
1988d New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 146, ill. p. 58.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 105, pl. 37.
1998–99 Sydney
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.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 85, ill.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 16, Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett.
Published References
Chappuis 1962
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 1963a
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 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 94, ill. dated c. 1876.
Brion 1971
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1971, ill. p. 33.
Chappuis 1973
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 1988
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 22, ill.
Ballas 2002
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 2013
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, p. 192, fig. 74.
Ruppen 2017
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).
Baigneuses, deux lutteurs et tête de garçon, 1871–73 (wrestlers), 1873–76 (female bather), c. 1878 (son) (FWN 2245). lower part of a color lithograph printed in La Mode illustrée, 1870, no. 57. The upper portion is on the verso of FWN2219.
lower part of a color lithograph printed in La Mode illustrée, 1870, no. 57. The upper portion is on the verso of FWN2219.

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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 4, 2025).