The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
FWN 628
Une moderne Olympia
1873–74
Alternate titles: A Modern Olympia; A Modern Olympia (Sketch); Die neue Olympia; Eine moderne Olympia; L'Olympia; La moderne Olympia; La Nouvelle Olympia; Moderne Olympia; Une moderne Olympia
Rewald: (225) 1873–74; Venturi revised: 1872–74; Cézanne fils: 1875; Venturi: (225) 1872–73; Rivière: 1868 (retouched in 1872?); Vollard: 1872; Cooper: c.1873; Gowing: c.1873; Ratcliffe: probably 1873; Other: P. Gachet: 1872
Oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 21 5/8 in. (46 x 55 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 269 and [264], Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1875
Provenance
Exhibition History
Studio Nadar (35, boulevard des Capucines), Paris, Première exposition de la Société anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, April 15–May 15, 1874, no. 43, as Une moderne Olympia, Esquisse, lent by Dr. Gachet.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 28, as La moderne Olympia, lent by Gachet.
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 7, as Une moderne Olympia, lent by P. Gachet.
Orangerie, Paris, Monticelli et le baroque provençal, June 19–September 15, 1953, no. 13, as Une moderne Olympia, c. 1872-1873, lent by Louvre.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 25, pl. XI, lent by Musée du Louvre.
Orangerie, Paris, Van Gogh et les peintres d'Auvers-sur-Oise, November 26, 1954–February 28, 1955, no. 8, as Une moderne Olympia, 1873.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 11, ill. lent by Louvre.
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 6, ill. in color, as Une moderne Olympia.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 28, shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Grand Palais, Paris, Un ami de Cézanne et de Van Gogh: le docteur Gachet, January 28–April 26, 1999, no. 1 (P.G. II-25), fig. 35, 37-40a, 41 and 43 (details), pp. 36–43 (ill. with copies by Paul van Ryssel (Dr Gachet) and Blanche Derousse and technical comparison), as A Modern Olympia (Sketch), 1873-74, lent by Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Van Gogh: The Collection of Doctor Gachet, May 25–August 15, 1999; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, September 24–December 5, 1999.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 48, ill., p. 97, as La moderne Olympia, lent by Musée d'Orsay.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Sade: attaquer le soleil, September 14, 2014–January 25, 2015, no. 325, ill., listed p. 326, as Une moderne Olympia.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Le modèle noir: de Géricault à Matisse, March 26–July 21, 2019, no. 115, listed p. 356, ill. pp. 162-163, as Une moderne Olympia.
Published References
Leroy, Louis. "L'exposition des impressionnistes." Le Charivari, April 25, 1874, p. 80, as Moderne Olympia.
Montifaud, Marc de. "Exposition du boulevard des Capucines." L'Artiste (May 1, 1874), p. 310, as L'Olympia.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 40, as Die neue Olympia, dated 1872.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 198, listed.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 26, as Die neue Olympia, 1872.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle, special number, Cézanne (May 1936), p. 8, as La moderne Olympia.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 225, ill. vol. II, as Une moderne Olympia.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 54, as La moderne Olympia.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 34, p. 179, ill. (analysis on p. 314).
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, p. 202, fig. 43.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, pp. 245, 248, ill.
Florisoone, Michel. "Van Gogh et les peintres d'Auvers chez le Dr. Gachet." L'Amour de l'art 31, nos. 64-66 (November, 1952), p. 19, ill.
Rewald, John. "Gachet's Unknown Gems Emerge." Art News 51, no. 1 (March 1952), p. 18, ill.
Gachet, Paul. Deux amis des impressionnistes: le Docteur Gachet et Murer. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1956, pp. 57–58.
Adhémar, Hélène. Catalogue des peintures, pastels, sculptures impressionnistes du Musée du Louvre. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, pp. 16–17, no. 31.
Bazin, Germain. Trésors de l'impressionnisme au Louvre. Paris: A. Somogy, 1958, pp. 142-143, ill. 1873.
Sterling, Charles, and Hélène Adhémar. La Peinture au Musée du Louvre, vol. I. Paris: Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, fig. 248.
Mathey, François. Les Impressionnistes et leur temps. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1959, p. 25, ill., as Une moderne Olympia.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 323, ill.
Brion-Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Albin Michel, 1966, pp. 152-153, as Une moderne Olympia.
Pool, Phoebe. Impressionism. New York: Praeger, 1967, pl. 142, as A Modern Olympia, dated 1872–73.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 67.
Schapiro, Meyer. "The Apples of Cézanne: An Essay on the Meaning of Still-Life." Art News Annual 34 (1968), pl. 10.
Adhémar, Hélène, and Anne Dayez. Musée du Jeu de Paume. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1973, listed p. 140, ill. p. 17, as Eine moderne Olympia, c. 1873.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 27, ill.
Monneret, Sophie. Cézanne, Zola . . . La fraternité du génie. Paris: Denoël, 1978, ill. cover and p. 19.
Monneret, Sophie. L'Impressionnisme et son époque: dictionnaire international illustré. Paris: Denoël, 1978, vol. 1, ill. p. 120.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Cézanne's Bathers: Form and Content." Arts Magazine 54, no. 9 (May 1980), p. 115.
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Covre: pl. 4.
Geist, Sidney. "A Skull in Cézanne's 'A Modern Olympia.'" Iris Notes in the History of Art (February 1982), p. 15, fig. 12.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 41, ill. in color.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 8.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 22.
Lucie-Smith, Edward. Chefs-d’œuvre impressionnistes du Musée du Jeu de Paume. London: Thames & Hudson, 1984, p. 25, ill.
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, p. 20/21, ill. in color.
Bonafoux, Pascal. Les Impressionnistes portraits et confidences. Geneva: Skira, 1986, p. 97, ill.
Compin, Isabelle et Anne Roquebert. Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du musée du Louvre et du musée d'Orsay. 3, École Française, A-K. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 114, ill., as Une moderne Olympia, c. 1873-74.
Thomas, Denis. The Age of the Impressionists. Middlesex, U.K.: Holiday House, 1987, p. 152, ill.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Parisian Writers and the Early Work of Cézanne." In Cézanne: The Early Years. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 18.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 65, ill. in color.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 46, ill. in color.
Distel, Anne. Les Collectionneurs des impressionnistes: Amateurs et marchands. Paris: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1989, p. 201, ill.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 105, fig. 50.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Paul Cézanne: The Bathers." In Paul Cézanne: The Bathers. Basel: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, ill. 51 p. 87.
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne, tradition et modernité." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 84, fig. 31.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 225, ill. vol. 2, as Une moderne Olympia.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 31, fig. 23, as A Modern Olympia.
Harvey, Benjamin. "Cézanne and Zola: A Reassessment of 'L'Eternel féminin.'" Burlington, vol. 140, no. 1142 (May 1998), p. 312, fig. 18.
Maloon, Terence. "Classic Cézanne." In Classic Cézanne. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, p. 34, fig. 14.
Stein, Susan, with the assistance of Julie Steiner. "Summary Catalogue of Works by Major Artists (Volume II, Cézanne [catalogue raisonné by Paul Gachet fils)." Cézanne to Van Gogh: The Collection of Doctor Gachet. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. Exhibition catalogue, p. 207, P.G. II-25, ill., (no. 1 of cat.), as A Modern Olympia (Sketch), 1873-74.
Baumann, Felix A. "Beyond the Uniform Picture Surface." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 24, fig. 5, as Une moderne Olympia.
Brettell, Richard R. "The Impression in 1874." In Impression: painting quckly in France 1860-1890. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 3, as A Modern Olympia.
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne au fil de l'eau." In Au fil de l'eau. Aix-en-Provence: Ville d'Aix-en-Provence, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 18, as Une moderne Olympia.
Mai, Ekkehard. "Entzauberung und Mystifikation: Wechselbilder der Venus-Olympia von Cabanel bis Cézanne." In Faszination Venus: Bilder einer Göttin von Cranach bis Cabanel. Cologne: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. Snoeck - Ducaju & Zoon, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 194, fig. 14, as Moderne Olympia, 1872/73.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, pp. 128, 130–31, 200, fig. 33, as Une moderne Olympia.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. pp. 23 and 253 (detail), p. 310, no. 262, ill. c. 1873.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 86, fig. 2.35, as Une moderne Olympia.
Locke, Nancy. "Cézanne's 'Bathers', Watteau, and the Idea of Fantasy." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 77, no. 1/2 (2003), p. 22, fig. 7.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 179, fig. 93.
Adriani, Götz. "Eine Moderne Olympia." In Bordell und Boudoir. Schauplätze der Moderne: Cézanne, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 69, as Eine moderne Olympia.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Motive: Versuch einer neuen Ordnung." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 203, ill.
Kear, Jon. "'Frenhofer: c'est moi': Cézanne's Nudes and Balzac's 'Le Chef-d-oeuvre inconnu.'" The Cambridge Quarterly 35, no. 4 (2006), p. 352, fig. 2.
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, pp. 112–13, ill.
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, pl. 6, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 71; vol. 2, p. 70, as Une moderne Olympia.
Mitchell, Mark D. "A New Tradition: Cézanne, Demuth, and the Invention of Modern Watercolor." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 282, fig. 10.3, as A Modern Olympia.
Vial, Marie-Paule. "Olympia." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 97, ill., as Une moderne Olympia.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 181, fig. 123.
Müller, Christina. Der Schritt durch den Rahmen: Bild und Weiblichkeitsmythos im Werk Brigitte Reimanns. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2012, fig. 7 p. 261, as Eine moderne Olympia, 1873.
Whiteley, Linda. "Reception of Cézanne: Cézanne and the Past." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 147, fig. 83, p. 143 (detail), as A Modern Olympia.
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, p. 73, fig. 29 (detail) and pl. 5.
Rubin, James. "Amitiés et théories: Courbet/Proudhon, Cézanne/Zola ou comment Cézanne connu Courbet." In Courbet/Cézanne, La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 60, fig. 11.
Cézanne: Pioneer of Modern Art. Kanagawa: Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 28, fig. 5.
Kendall, Richard. "Cézanne and His Early Critics." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 2.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 6.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 37.
Groom, Gloria. "'At Once Unknown and Famous' – Cezanne in Paris." In Cezanne. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022, p. 25, fig. 2.
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 36.
Record last updated March 1, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Une moderne Olympia, 1873–74 (FWN 628)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=229 (accessed on June 9, 2023).
