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Catalogue entry

FWN 919-TA
Baigneuses
1876–77 (possibly earlier)
Alternate titles: Three Bathers; Trois baigneuses
Rewald (358): 1876–77 (possibly earlier); Venturi revised: 1873–75; Cézanne fils: 1877; Venturi (269): 1875–77
Oil on canvas
9 13/16 x 13 1/5 in. (24.8 x 34.3 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 28, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1877
Elliott Wolk, Scarsdale

Keywords

Provenance
Dr. Paul Gachet, Auvers-sur-Oise;
Paul Gachet fils, Auvers-sur-Oise
Wildenstein Galleries, Paris, London, and New York
Mr. and Mrs. O. Roy Chalk, Palm Beach;
Parke-Bernet, New York, Oct. 19, 1977, no. 29, ill.; bought in
Christie's, New York, Nov. 19, 1986, no. 7, ill.
Elliott Wolk, Scarsdale
Exhibition History
1974 Cape Town
National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, French Painting of the Turn of the Century, 1974, no. 6.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 25, pls. 109.
Published References
Bernard 1925
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 100.
Bernard 1926a
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 86.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 269, ill. vol. II, as Trois baigneuses.
Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, p. 158.
Brion 1971
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1971, ill. p. 76.
Krumrine 1992
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Cézanne's 'Restricted Power': Further Reflections on the 'Bathers.'" The Burlington Magazine 134, no. 1074 (September 1992), fig. 12 p. 588, as Trois baigneuses.
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. 358, ill. vol. 2, as Trois baigneuses.
Reff 1997a
Reff, Theodore. Review of The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, by John Rewald, in collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. The Burlington Magazine 139, no. 1136 (November 1997), p. 801, questions Feilchenfeldt's rejection of work.
Stein 1999
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. 206, P.G. II-24, ill., as Three Bathers, 1876-77 (possibly earlier).
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, pp. 39–40, p. 276, no. 10, ill., as Trois baigneuses, c. 1874.
Feilchenfeldt 2005e
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Gemälde: Formate und Themen, Echtheitsfragen." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 243, ill.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 81; vol. 2, p. 76, as Trois baigneuses.
Notes

Venturi suggested that the bather seen from the back may have come from a lithograph after Greuze's Le Coucher de la mariée, which Cézanne owned. The artist made several sketches on the verso see FWN 2286.

For a preparatory drawing, see FWN 2018.

Record last updated May 14, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneuses, 1876–77 (possibly earlier) (FWN 919-TA)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=354 (accessed on April 20, 2024).