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Catalogue entry

FWN 663
Bethsabée
1885–90
Alternate titles: Femme nue, paysage; Petite ébauche; The Toilet
Rewald (592): 1885–90; Venturi revised: 1872–74; Venturi (255): 1875–76
Oil on canvas
8 1/2 x 7 7/8 in. (21.5 x 20 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3734, Femme nue et une autre à ses pieds, 27 x 23 cm (125 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 339, Annotated by Cezanne;s son: 1880–85
Sotheby's, New York

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris (1904);
M. et Mme René Lecomte, Paris;
Private collection;
Pellerin Collection, Christie's, New York, Nov. 8, 1999, no. 131, ill.
Private collection, U.S.A.;
Sotheby's, New York, Nov. 3, 2011, no. 176, ill.
Private collection, Europe;
Sotheby's, New York, November 13, 2023, no. 310, ill.
Exhibition History
1954 Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 38, pl. XVI, lent by private collection, Paris.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 20, discussed p. 96, pl. 63.
Published References
Fry 1926
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 416, as Petite ébauche.
Fry 1927a
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, p. 86, fig. 53, pl. XXXIII.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 255, ill. vol. II, as Bethsabée.
Fry 1952
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 86, pl. XXXIII fig. 53, as The Toilet.
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. 592, ill. vol. 2, as Bethsabée.
Colrat 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 75, pl. 11.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 252, ill., as Femme nue, paysage.

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Record last updated November 21, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Bethsabée, 1885–90 (FWN 663)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=575 (accessed on April 26, 2024).