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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 941
Cinq baigneuses
1877–78
Alternate titles: Baigneuses; Cinq baigneuses or Femmes nues
Rewald (366): 1877–78; Venturi revised: 1878–79; Venturi (382): 1879–82; Rivière: 1883(?)
Oil on canvas
15 x 16 1/8 in. (38 x 41 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 157, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1885–90
Private collection
Provenance
Jos. Hessel, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris;
Jean-Victor Pellerin, Paris
Private collection, France
Wildenstein Galleries, Paris, London, and New York
Private collection, Japan
Sotheby's, London, June 24, 2002, no. 10, ill.; bought in
Private collection
Exhibition History
1982 Gifu
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Gifu, Japan, Paris autour de 1882: le développement de la peinture moderne en France et Hôsui Yamamoto, November 3–December 19, 1982, no. 70, ill., as Baigneuses, 1877-78.1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 36, pl. 113.1997 Kasama
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 11, ill.Published References
Bernard 1920b
Bernard, Émile. "La technique de Paul Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 274, as Baigneuses.Fontainas and Vauxcelles 1922
Fontainas, André and Louis Vauxcelles. "Paul Cézanne." Histoire générale de l'art français de la Révolution à nos jours: la peinture, la gravure, le dessin. Paris: Librairie de France, 1922, ill. p. 229, as Baigneuses.Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 210, listed (?)Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 382, ill. vol. II, as Baigneuses.Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 58, ill.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. 189, n. 42.Kuthy 1983
Kuthy, Sandor. Gemälde des 19. Jahrhunderts. Bern: Kunstmuseum, 1983, p. 162, 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. 366, ill. vol. 2, as Cinq baigneuses.Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 277, no. 18, ill., as Cinq baigneuses, 1880-82.Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 246, ill., as Cinq baigneuses or Femmes nues.Notes
The painting is seen hanging in Vuillard's 1901 canvas of Jos Hessel's Salon on the rue de Rivoli.
Edouard Vuillard, Le Salon Hessel, rue de Rivoli, 1901
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Record last updated April 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Cinq baigneuses, 1877–78 (FWN 941)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=362 (accessed on April 24, 2024).
