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 2030
Quatre baigneuses
1879–82
Alternate titles: Badende Frauen; Four Bathers; Four Female Bathers; Four women bathers; Vier Badende; Vier badende Frauen; Vier weibliche Badende
Chappuis (514); Venturi (1264): 1879–82
Graphite on laid paper (fragment)
Watermark: Desloye, "PL BAS"
8 x 8 3/4 in. (20.3 x 22.3 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Exposition Cézanne, May 9–June 10, 1898, lithograph made after this work for the invitation card.
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Teekeningen van Ingres tot Seurat, December 20, 1933–January 21, 1934, no. 2, ill.
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands, Fransche Impressionisten, January 10–31, 1935, no. 35.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Meisterzeichnungen französischer Künstler von Ingres bis Cézanne, June 29–August 18, 1935, no. 177, as Badende Frauen, lent by Herr Franz Koenigs, Haarlem.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 125, as Vier Badende, c. 1880, lent by F. Koenigs, Haarlem.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Teekeningen van Fransche meesters 1800 - 1900, February 1946, no. 11.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 27, ill., as Four Bathers, 1879-82, The Franz Koenings Collection, Haarlem, NL; not shown. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Musée Boymans de Rotterdam: dessins du XVe au XIXe siècle, February 20–April 20, 1952, no. 138, as Quatre baigneuses, 1879-82.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 112, ill. 1879-82, lent by Museum Boymans, Rotterdam.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 131, ill. 1879/82, lent by Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam.
Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, Wegbereiter der modernen Malerei: Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Seurat, May 4–July 14, 1963, no. 26, pl. 8, as Vier badende Frauen, 1879-82, lent by Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 137, ill. p. 233, as Vier weibliche Badende, 1879-1882, lent by Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 118, pl. 123.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 61, ill. in color, p. 201, as Quatre baigneuses, 1879-1882, lent by Museum Boymans, Rotterdam. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 96, ill., as Quatre baigneuses, lent by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Au fil de l'eau: Cézanne, June 17–September 15, 2000, no. 36, ill. p. 56, as Quatre baigneuses, c. 1879-82, lent by Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1264, ill. vol. II, as Quatre baigneuses.
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert. Vijf eeuwen tekenkunst. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, no. 85, ill.
Mathey, François. Les Impressionnistes et leur temps. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1959, p. 139, ill.
Beucken, Jean de. Cézanne. New York: Viking Press, 1962, p. 107, ill. (the lithograph used for the invitation to Vollard's 1898 Cezanne exhibition, based on this drawing).
Longstreet, Stephen. The Drawings of Cézanne. Los Angeles: Borden Publishing Company, ill.
Hoetink, Bernard. Franse Tekeningen uit de 19e Eeuw. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1968, no. 27, ill. date circa 1879.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 174, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 514, ill., as Four women bathers.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 96, ill.
Shiff, Richard. "Dense Cézanne." Apollo (London) 143, no. 412 (June 1996), fig. 2, as Four Bathers.
Walter, Sabine. "Die Sammlung Harry Graf Kessler in Weimar und Berlin." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, p. 74, listed p. 87.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, fig. 8-2c p. 52, p. 280, no. 50, ill.
Lloyd, Christopher. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawings. New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2019, p. 91, ill., as Four Female Bathers.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 103, fig. 7, as Four Bathers.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Quatre baigneuses, 1879–82 (FWN 2030), (fragment)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2180 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
