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Catalogue entry

FWN 927
Baigneur assis au bord de l'eau
c.1876
Alternate titles: Baigneur assis; Femme nue accroupie; Nu assis; Nu assis en plein air; Petit Nu; Sitzender Akt im Freien
Rewald (263): c.1876; Venturi revised: 1872–77; Cézanne fils: 1880; Venturi (260): 1875–77
Oil on canvas
11 3/8 x 8 5/16 in. (29 x 21 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 79, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1880
Im Obersteg collection, Basel (on long term loan to the Kunstmuseum Basel)

Keywords

Provenance
Auguste Pellerin, Paris
Galerie Tanner, Zurich
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Karl Im Obersteg, Basel;
Im Obersteg collection, Basel (2004)
Exhibition History
1926a Paris
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, Trente ans d’art indépendant: rétrospective de 1884 à 1914, February 20–March 21, 1926, no. 2871, as Petit Nu, lent by Paul Guillaume.
1929 Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Collection Paul Guillaume: exposition au profit de la Société des Amis du Luxembourg, May 25–June 1929, p. 53, ill., as Nu assis.
1930a Paris
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 14, as Nu assis en plein air, lent by P. Guillaume.
1931a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 19, ill., as Sitzender Akt im Freien, 1875-77, lent by Private collection, Basel.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 21, pl. 135.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 84, ill.
2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 41, ill.
Published References
Waldemar-George 1929a
Waldemar-George. La grande peinture contemporaine à la collection Paul Guillaume. Paris: Éditions des Arts à Paris, 1929, ill. p. 53, as Nu assis.
Alexandre 1930a
Alexandre, Arsène. "L'Exposition Cézanne à la galerie du Théâtre Pigalle." La Renaissance (Paris; New York), vol. 13, no. 1 (January 1930), ill. p. 75, as Nu assis.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. XCVII p. 132.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 260, ill. vol. II, as Nu assis en plein air.
Baumgarter 1995
Baumgarter, Michael. Die Sammlung Karl und Jürg Im Obersteg. Bern: Benteli Verlag, 1995, no. 1, ill.
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. 263, ill. vol. 2, as Baigneur assis au bord de l'eau.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 293, no. 131, ill., as Baigneur assis, 1875-77.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 270, ill., as Femme nue accroupie, installation photograph from 1931 exhibition, p. 125.
Notes

For related works see FWN 2023, 2024, 3010-45b, 3003-30b, 3009-33b and 3006-28a.

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Record last updated April 7, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneur assis au bord de l'eau, c.1876 (FWN 927)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=264 (accessed on April 20, 2024).