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Catalogue entry

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)
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Harry Graf Kessler, Weimar
Paul Cassirer, Berlin
Franz Koenigs, Haarlem
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Exhibition History
1898 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Exposition Cézanne, May 9–June 10, 1898, lithograph made after this work for the invitation card.
1933–34b Rotterdam
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Teekeningen van Ingres tot Seurat, December 20, 1933–January 21, 1934, no. 2, ill.
1935 Haarlem
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands, Fransche Impressionisten, January 10–31, 1935, no. 35.
1935 Basel
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.
1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 125, as Vier Badende, c. 1880, lent by F. Koenigs, Haarlem.
1946 Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Teekeningen van Fransche meesters 1800 - 1900, February 1946, no. 11.
1952 Chicago and traveling
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.
1952d Paris
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.
1956 The Hague
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 112, ill. 1879-82, lent by Museum Boymans, Rotterdam.
1956 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 171, ill., pl. 70.
1956 Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 131, ill. 1879/82, lent by Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam.
1963 Hamburg
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.
1978 Tübingen
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.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 118, pl. 123.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
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.
1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling
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.
2000 Aix-en-Provence
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
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, cover, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1264, ill. vol. II, as Quatre baigneuses.
Haverkamp-Begemann 1957
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert. Vijf eeuwen tekenkunst. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, no. 85, ill.
Mathey 1959
Mathey, François. Les Impressionnistes et leur temps. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1959, p. 139, ill.
Beucken 1962
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 1964
Longstreet, Stephen. The Drawings of Cézanne. Los Angeles: Borden Publishing Company, ill.
Hoetink 1968
Hoetink, Bernard. Franse Tekeningen uit de 19e Eeuw. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1968, no. 27, ill. date circa 1879.
Murphy 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 174, ill.
Siblík 1969
Siblík, Jiří. Paul Cézanne: Kresby [Drawings]. Prague: Odeon, 1969, fig. 8.
Chappuis 1973
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 1989
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 96, ill.
Shiff 1996
Shiff, Richard. "Dense Cézanne." Apollo (London) 143, no. 412 (June 1996), fig. 2, as Four Bathers.
Walter 2001
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 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, fig. 8-2c p. 52, p. 280, no. 50, ill.
Lloyd 2019
Lloyd, Christopher. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawings. New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2019, p. 91, ill., as Four Female Bathers.
Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021
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 May 4, 2024).