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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
FWN 938
Quatre baigneuses
1877–78
Alternate titles: Badende; Baigneuses
Rewald (363): 1877–78; Venturi revised: 1878–79; Cézanne fils: 1880; Venturi (384): 1879–82
Oil on canvas
15 x 18 3/16 in. (38 x 46.2 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3901, huile; femme[s] nue[s] se baignan[t] dan[s] un bois, 38 x 46 cm (100 frs)
Vollard X stockbook: no. 5157, baigneuses
Vollard archives: photo no. 185, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1880
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Private collection
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 16, 1908, no. 8, ill.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
S. Sevadjian, Paris;
S...S... [Sevadjian] Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Mar. 22, 1920, no. 3, ill.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (March 23, 1920)
Nathan J. Miller, New York (April 24, 1923);
Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Davis, New York
Heinz Berggruen, Paris
Paul Haim, Paris
Galerie Nichido, Tokyo
Private collection, Japan
Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa
Exhibition History
1913 New York
Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment, New York, International Exhibition of Modern Art [Armory Show], February 17–March 15, 1913, no. 216, as Baigneuses, lent by Vollard. Traveled to: Art Institute, Chicago, March 24–April 15, 1913; Copley Hall, Boston, April 28–May 18, 1913.1913 Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Armory Show, March 24–April 16, 1913, no. 40.1913 Boston
Copley Society of Boston, Copley Hall, Boston, Armory Show, April 28–May 19, 1913, no. 16.1920d Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 22, ill., as Baigneuses, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.1934–35 New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition, November 19, 1934–January 20, 1935, no. 4, ill.1942d New York
Paul Rosenberg, New York, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne (1839-1906) for the Benefit of Fighting France, November 19–December 19, 1942, no. 4, ill. lent by A.W. Davis.1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 18, ill. lent by Davis.1963a Utica and traveling
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, 1913 Armory Show: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, February 17–March 31, 1963, no. 216. Traveled to: Armory of the 69th Regiment, New York, April 6–28, 1963.1963e New York
Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Armory of the 69th Regiment, New York, April 6–28, 1963, no. 216. Traveled to: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, February 17–March 31, 1963.1975 Sydney and traveling
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Modern Masters: Manet to Matisse, April 10–May 11, 1975, no number, ill. Traveled to: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, May 28–June 22, 1975; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, August 4–September 28, 1975.1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 37, pl. 114.1997 Kasama
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 12, ill.1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 94, ill., as Quatre baigneuses, lent by Private collection, Japan. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.2007 Tokyo
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, Four Attractions: Figure, Still Life, Landscape, Bather, October 6–November 25, 2007, no. 21.2015 Kanagawa
Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan, Cézanne, Pioneer of Modern Art, April 4–September 27, 2015, no. 12, ill. lent by Pola Museum of Art.2020 Paris
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie, February 27–July 5, 2020, no. 31, ill. lent by Pola Museum of Art, Hakone.Published References
Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 1921b
"Confidences d'artistes: I. — d'Angel Zarraga." Le Bulletin de la Vie Artistique 2, no. 21 (November 1, 1921), ill. p. 554.Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 89, as Badende (Photo: Thannhauser).Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 384, ill. vol. II, as Quatre baigneuses.Brown 1963
Brown, Milton. The Story of the Armory Show. New York: J.H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, p. 228.Ballas 1983
Ballas, Guila. "Unknown Sources for Cézanne's Women Bathers." In Norms and Variations in Art: Essays in Honor of Moshe Barasch. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1983, p. 188, n. 35.Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 138, ill.Lévêque 1988
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 201, ill. in color.Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 172, 192, 194, fig. 97.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. 363, ill. vol. 2, as Quatre baigneuses.Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 277, no. 14, ill., as Quatre baigneuses, 1879-80.Pola Museum of Art 2002
Masterpieces of the Pola Museum of Art
Paintings. Kanagawa: Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2002, no. 25.Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 86; vol. 2, p. 77, as Quatre baigneuses.Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 243, ill., as Baigneuses.Cezanne 2021
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 87.Notes
Pierre Bonnard painted this Cézanne composition of bathers into the background of his portrait of Ambroise Vollard.
Pierre Bonnard, Portrait of Vollard, c. 1904-05. Kunsthaus Zürich
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Quatre baigneuses, 1877–78 (FWN 938)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=359 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
