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Catalogue entry

FWN 931
Le Bain
1880–82 (possibly later)
Alternate titles: Badende; Le Bain, trois baigneurs; The Bath
Rewald (451): 1880–82 (possibly later); Venturi revised: 1885–88; Venturi (395): 1879–82; Rivière: 1888
Oil on canvas
13 13/16 x 8 11/16 in. (35 x 22 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 181, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1885 ; in another hand: Mirbeau
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (Sammlung Steegmann)

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Provenance
Octave Mirbeau, Paris;
Mirbeau Collection, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, Feb. 24, 1919, no. 7, ill.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Josef Müller, Solothurn;
Private collection, Geneva
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (1998)
Exhibition History
1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 22, as Badende, c. 1880, lent by Private collection.
1978 Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Petits Formats, May–July 1978, no. 25, ill.
1983 Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 16, ill., as Le Bain, lent by Private collection.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 39, pl. 143.
1999 Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Kunst über Grenzen. Die Klassische Moderne von Cézanne bis Tinguely und die Weltkunst - aus der Schweiz gesehen, March 7–May 30, 1999, no. 7, ill.
2012 Düsseldorf
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany, El Greco und die Moderne, April 28–August 12, 2012, listed p. 405, ill. p. 164, as The Bath, 1880-82, lent by Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.
Published References
Meier-Graefe 1913
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, ill. p. 31.
Meier-Graefe 1918a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 148.
Adès 1919
Adès, Albert. "Mirbeau, critique d'art et collectionneur." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris), vol. 2, no. 2 (February 1919), p. 54, ill. p. 50, as Le Bain.
Meier-Graefe 1922
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 181.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 216, listed.
Brandt 1929
Brandt, Paul. Sehen und Erkennen. Leipzig: A. Kröner, 1929, p. 410, fig. 724.
Rey 1931
Rey, Robert. La Renaissance du sentiment classique. Paris: G. van Oest, 1931, ill. opp. p. 84.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 395, ill. vol. II, as Le Bain.
Rivière 1942
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 101, ill.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 451, ill.
Du 1989
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 32, ill.
Adler 1990
Adler, Kathleen. "Cézanne's Bodies." Art in America 78 (April 1990), p. 236, 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. 451, ill. vol. 2, as Le Bain.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 293, no. 137, ill., as Le Bain, trois baigneurs, 1889-90.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 147; vol. 2, p. 110, as Le Bain.

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Record last updated July 11, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Bain, 1880–82 (possibly later) (FWN 931)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=442 (accessed on April 25, 2024).