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)
FWN 920
Trois baigneuses
c.1875
Alternate titles: Badende; Three Bathers
Rewald (361): c.1875; Venturi revised: 1874–77; Venturi (267): 1873–77
Oil on canvas
12 x 13 in. (30.5 x 33 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection, Japan
Private collection
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 28, ill. lent by Rosenberg. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Cézanne, September 23–October 24, 1954, no. 13, lent by Paul Rosenberg.
Marlborough Galleries, London, XIX and XX Century European Masters, Summer 1959, no. 9, pl. 14.
National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, One Man's Choice, April 4–May 19, 1985, no. 14.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 10, ill. lent by private collection, England. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 23, pl. 108.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 38, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia, June 20–September 3, 2012, no number, ill., p. 215, fig. 1, lent by Private collection.
BOZAR, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, Rubens and his legacy: from Van Dyck to Cézanne, September 25, 2014–January 4, 2015, no. 80. Traveled to: Royal Academy of Arts, L, London, February 24–April 10, 2015.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 103, ill. Private collection. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 76.
Dormoy, Marie. "Quelques tableaux de la collection particulière Ambroise Vollard." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, no. 17 (September 1931), ill. between pp. 122 and 113.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 267, ill. vol. II, as Trois baigneuses.
Steingräber, Erich. "Henry Moore - Maquetten: Zum Wandel des Arbeitsprozesses in seinem Werk." Pantheon, Internationale Zeitschrift für Kunst 36, no. 3 (July–September 1978), pp. 250, 256, 259–60, fig. 37, as Badende, 1873/77.
Wilkinson, Alan G. The Moore Collection in the Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1979, p. 27, fig. 16.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 36, pl. 10.
Wilkinson, Alan G. Henry Moore Remembered: The Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 53–54, fig. 8.
Geelhaar, Christian. "The Painters Who Had the Right Eyes: On the reception of Cézanne's Bathers." In Paul Cézanne: The Bathers. Basel: Kunstmuseum Basel, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, p. 298, fig. 236.
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. 361, ill. vol. 2, as Trois baigneuses.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, pp. 38–39, p. 276, no. 9, ill., as Trois baigneuses, c. 1873.
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, fig. 32, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 84; vol. 2, p. 76, as Trois baigneuses.
Rishel, Joseph J. "Introduction." In Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, ill. opp. p. 1, fig. 1, as Three Bathers, lent by Private Collection.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 172, fig. 118.
Notes
The painting inspired Henry Moore (who owned it) to execute a bronze sculpture in 1978, titled Three Bathers – After Cézanne.
Moore once said that "It's the only picture I ever wanted to own. It's ... the joy of my life. I saw it [in 1959] in an exhibition and was stunned by it. I didn't sleep for two or three nights trying to decide whether to [buy it].... To me it's marvelous. Monumental." [H. Moore, 1966]
Henry Moore, Three Bathers – After Cézanne, 1978. Bronze.
Record last updated April 30, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Trois baigneuses, c.1875 (FWN 920)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=357 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
