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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)
Catalogue entry
© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 906
Baigneuse au bord de la mer
c.1875
Alternate titles: Baigneuse; Baigneuse or Sous un arbre au bord de la mer; Bather at the Seashore; Femme nue au bord de la mer; Femme nue au tambourin sous un arbre; Sous un arbre au bord de la mer
Rewald (248): c.1875; Venturi revised: 1872–74; Cézanne fils: 1880–85; Venturi (256): 1875–76; Rivière: 1873
Oil on canvas
9 1/4 x 8 11/16 in. (23.5 x 22 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3792, huile; une femme assise sous un arbre parasol, 24 x 23 cm (25 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 101, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1880–85
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Jos. Hessel, Paris
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia (December 21, 1935)
Exhibition History
1910c Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Nus, May 17–28, 1910, no. 12, as Sous un arbre au bord de la mer, lent by Hessel.1923c Paris
Chambre syndicale de la Curiosité, 18, rue de la Ville-l'Evêque, Paris, L'Art français au service de la science française, April 25–May 15, 1923, no. 161, as Baigneuse, lent by Hessel.1930a Paris
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 25, as Femme nue au tambourin sous un arbre, lent by Hessel.1935b London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, July 1935, no. 3, as Baigneuse.Published References
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 201, listed.Bernard, T. 1930
Bernard, Tristan. "Jos Hessel." La Renaissance (Paris; New York), vol. 13, no. 1 (January 1930), ill. p. 14, as Femme nue au bord de la mer.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 256, ill. vol. II, as Baigneuse au bord de la mer.Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 86, p. 232, ill.Reff 1962a
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Bather with Outstretched Arms." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 59, periode 6 (March 1962), p. 184.Dorival 1974
Dorival, Bernard. "Les omissions d'Archipenko et de Lipschitz." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français (1974), fig. 39.De Mazia 1988–89
De Mazia, Violette. "The Nature of Form." Vistas 4, no. 2 (1988–89), p. 61, pl. 75.Rewald 1996
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. 248, ill. vol. 2, as Baigneuse au bord de la mer.Blanc 2019
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 41 (discussion p. 41), as Baigneuse au bord de la mer.Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 271, ill., as Baigneuse or Sous un arbre au bord de la mer.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, no. 6, pp. 73–78, as Bather at the Seashore (catalogue notes by J. Rishel and J. Warman).Related
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Record last updated December 7, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneuse au bord de la mer, c.1875 (FWN 906)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=251 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
