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Catalogue entry

FWN 942
Quatre baigneuses
c.1880
Alternate titles: Badende; Baigneuses; Étude de baigneuses; Group of Bathers; Les Baigneuses
Rewald (458): c.1880; Venturi revised: 1878–79; Venturi (547): 1883–87; Vollard: 1887; Reff: mid–1880s
Oil on canvas
13 13/16 x 15 5/8 in. (35 x 39.5 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3510, huile. baigneurs -- quatre personnages nus, 34 x 38 cm (75 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 87, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1885
Private collection

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Egisto Fabbri, Florence and Paris (Oct. 1900)
Christian Tetzen-Lund, Copenhagen (1916–17)
Paul Guillaume, Paris (1925)
Mrs. Harris Jonas, New York (1936–53);
Estate of Mrs. Harris Jonas
[William Beadleston, New York]
Private collection, Mexico City
E.V. Thaw, New York
Private collection, Switzerland
Fujikawa Galleries, Tokyo;
Phillips, New York, May 7, 2001, no. 12, ill.; bought in
Private collection
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
1926a Paris
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, Trente ans d’art indépendant: rétrospective de 1884 à 1914, February 20–March 21, 1926, no. 2870, as Baigneuses, lent by Paul Guillaume.
1926b Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, no. 18, as Les Baigneuses, tentative identification, probably lent by Guillaume.
1929 Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Collection Paul Guillaume: exposition au profit de la Société des Amis du Luxembourg, May 25–June 1929, p. 54, ill., as Les Baigneuses.
1930a Paris
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 15, ill., as Baigneuses, lent by P. Guillaume.
1931a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
1935b Paris
Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris, Aquarelles et baignades de Cézanne, June 3–17, 1935.
1937 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 18, ill. lent by Mrs. Jonas.
1941b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec, February 6–March 26, 1941, no. 4.
1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 28, ill. lent by Jonas.
1949b New York
New School for Social Research, New York, 19th and 20th Century French Paintings from the Private Collection of Mrs. H. Harris Jonas, February 9–March 1, 1949, no. 3.
1952–53 New York and traveling
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Les Fauves, October 7, 1952–January 4, 1953, no. 1, introductory section (revised), as Group of Bathers, c. 1885, lent by Mrs. H. Harris Jonas. Traveled to: Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, January 21–February 22, 1953; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, March 13–April 12, 1953; Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, May 1–31, 1953.
1956b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Nude in Painting, November 1–December 1, 1956, no. 34.
1959e New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 29, ill. lent by Jonas.
1980 Paris
Daniel Malingue, Paris, Maîtres impressionnistes et modernes, March 14–April 26, 1980, no. 4, ill.
1981a New York
Acquavella Galleries, New York, 19th & 20th Century Master Paintings, May 14–June 12, 1981, no. 7, ill.
1988 Tokyo
Fujikawa Galleries, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, Chefs d'oeuvre français, April–May 1988, no. 5.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 46, pl. 116.
1994 Gumma
Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan, Impressionism, 20th Anniversary Exhibition: Celebrating Population of Two Million in Gunma Prefecture, September 21–November 6, 1994, no. 63, pp. 142, 185.
2008–09 Yokohama and traveling
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Homage to Cézanne: His Influence on the Development of Twentieth Century Painting, November 15, 2008–January 25, 2009, no. 44, ill., as Quatre baigneuses, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, February 7–April 12, 2009.
Published References
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 21, as Étude de baigneuses.
Häuser 1918
Häuser, Henrik. "Ein dänischer Sammler [Tetzen-Lund]." Der Cicerone 10, no. 11/12 (June 1918), pp. 164-165, as Baigneuses.
Arishima 1925
Arishima, Ikuma. Sezannu [Cézanne]. Tokyo: Ars, 1925, pl. 46.
Barnes 1925
Barnes, Albert C. "Les Baigneuses." Les Arts à Paris, no. 11 (October 1925), pp. 8-9, ill., as Les Baigneuses.
Camoin 1927
Camoin, Charles, translated by Albert Dreyfus. "Erinnerungen an Cézanne [and] Briefe Cézannes an Ch. Camoin." Kunst und Künstler 25, no. 6 (1927), p. 213, ill., as Badende.
Waldemar-George 1929a
Waldemar-George. La grande peinture contemporaine à la collection Paul Guillaume. Paris: Éditions des Arts à Paris, 1929, ill. p. 54, as Les Baigneuses.
Neugass 1930
Neugass, Fritz. "Paul Cézanne." Der Cicerone 22 , no. 4 (1930), ill. p. 107, as Badende.
Thomsen 1934
Thomsen, Oluf. Christian Tetzen-Lunds Samling of moderne fransk Malerkunst. Copenhagen: Tetzen-Lund, 1934, no. 4 of checklist, pl. 17, as Étude de baigneuses, dated c. 1880.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 547, ill. vol. II, as Baigneuses.
Wehle 1941
Wehle, Harry B. "French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 36, no. 2 (February 1941), p. 34.
Reff 1959
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne: The Enigma of the Nude." Art News 58, no. 8 (November 1959), pp. 26–28, fig. 6.
Reff 1960b
Reff, Theodore. "A New Cézanne Exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 102, no. 684 (March 1960), p. 117.
Geist 1980
Geist, Sidney. "Cézanne: Metamorphosis of the Self." Artscribe, no. 26 (December 1980), fig. 11.
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. 40.
Gottlieb 1984
Gottlieb, Lennart. "Tetzen-Lunds samling: om dens historie, indhold og betydning." Kunst og Museum 19 (1984), p. 25 (listed) of English translation.
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 137, ill.
Teboul 1988
Teboul, Jacques. Les Victoires de Cézanne. Paris: Adam Biro, 1988, no. 41, ill. (in reverse).
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. 458, ill. vol. 2, as Quatre baigneuses.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. pp. 55 and 59 (detail), p. 277, no. 15, ill., as Quatre baigneuses, 1883-85.
Lewis 2010
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Epilogue: Cézanne and Abstract Expressionism." In Cézanne and American Modernism, by Gail Stavitsky. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 133, fig. 6.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 244, ill., as Baigneuses, installation photograph from 1931 exhibition, p. 122.

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Record last updated July 11, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Quatre baigneuses, c.1880 (FWN 942)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=449 (accessed on March 28, 2024).