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Catalogue entry

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)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3344, 3 femmes au bain dans un paysage vert, 30 x 33 cm (100 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 70, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1877
Private collection

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York
Marlborough Galleries, London
Henry Moore, Much Hadham;
Mary Moore;
Henry Moore Foundation;
Sotheby's, New York, May 13, 1997, no. 8, ill.; bought in;
Sotheby's, London, June 28, 1999, no. 12, ill.
Private collection, Japan
Private collection
Exhibition History
1952 Chicago and traveling
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.
1954 Providence
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Cézanne, September 23–October 24, 1954, no. 13, lent by Paul Rosenberg.
1956a New York
Paul Rosenberg, New York, XIX and XX Century French Painting, 1956, no. 4.
1959b London
Marlborough Galleries, London, XIX and XX Century European Masters, Summer 1959, no. 9, pl. 14.
1985 Edinburgh
National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, One Man's Choice, April 4–May 19, 1985, no. 14.
1986 Tokyo and traveling
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.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 23, pl. 108.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
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.
2012 Philadelphia
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.
2014–15 Brussels and traveling
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.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 103, ill. Private collection. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 47.
Bernard 1925
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 76.
Dormoy 1931
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 267, ill. vol. II, as Trois baigneuses.
Moore 1966
Moore, Henry. Henry Moore on Sculpture. London: Macdonald, 1966, pp. 205, 208, fig. 71.
Levine 1978
Levine, Gemma. With Henry Moore. New York: Times Books, 1978, p. 128, ill.
Steingräber 1978
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 1979
Wilkinson, Alan G. The Moore Collection in the Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1979, p. 27, fig. 16.
Pickvance and Takumi 1986
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 36, pl. 10.
Wilkinson 1988
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 1989
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 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. 361, ill. vol. 2, as Trois baigneuses.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 143, fig. 92.
Ballas 2002
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 2008
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, fig. 32, ill.
Machotka 2008
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 2012a
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 2015
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]

Trois baigneuses, c.1875 (FWN 920). Henry Moore, Three Bathers – After Cézanne, 1978. Bronze.
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 March 18, 2024).