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)
FWN 956
Quatre baigneuses
1888–90
Alternate titles: Aktecomposition; Aktkomposition; Badende vrouwen; Baigneuses; Esquisse de Baigneuses; Four Bathers
Rewald (667): 1888–90; Venturi revised: 1885–88; Venturi (726): c.1900; Ratcliffe: 1888–89; Reff: c.1900, after Nos. 858 and 859 (MoMA)
Oil on board
28 5/16 x 36 3/16 in. (72 x 92 cm)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7029, Baigneuses (tableau très abîmé), 73 x 92 cm
Vollard W stockbook: no. 4491, baigneuses; huile, 73 x 92 (160,000)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Exposition du Groupe Les XX, January 1890, no. 3, as Esquisse de Baigneuses, According to Vollard, Cézanne slashed this painting with a palette knife, then worked on it again, and finally left it unfinished, p. 47.
Hugo Perls, Berlin, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, Zweite Ausstellung, January–February 1927, no. 5, ill., as Aktkomposition.
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Schilderijen van Delacroix tot Cézanne en Vincent van Gogh, December 20, 1933–January 21, 1934, no. 4, pl. XXXIV, as Badende vrouwen.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 36, as Quatre baigneuses, lent by Private collection.
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, French and Danish Paintings, 1958, no. 17.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 139, ill. shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark, Gloria Victis!: vainqueurs et vaincus dans l'art français: 1848-1910, May 29–October 15, 2000, no. 15, fig. 7, p. 12, as Baigneuses.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 117, ill. shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 53, ill. p. 21, as Quatre baigneuses, c. 1900, lent by Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen.
Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark, Modernism: Reinventing Painting, 1908–41, March 30–August 26, 2012, no. 5, ill., p. 82, fig. 47, as Baigneuses.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LII.
Hazama, Mosuke, Genichiri Adachi, and Kaziamasa Nakogawa, eds. Recueil important des oeuvres de Paul Cézanne. Vol. 1: Paysages, edited by Hazama. Vol. 2: Portraits et Nus., edited by Adachi. Vol. 3: Nature-mortes., edited by Nakogawa. Tokyo: Atorie-sha, 1935, pl. 14.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 726, ill. vol. II, as Quatre baigneuses.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 38, fig. 41.
Catalogue: French and Danish Paintings. Copenhagen: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1958, no. 868a.
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier, 1958-1959]." La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1092 (January 1960), p. 27, no. 91, ill., as Baigneuses.
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 191.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 118, fig. 8.
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 42, ill.
Geist, Sidney. "Cézanne: Metamorphosis of the Self." Artscribe, no. 26 (December 1980), fig. 8.
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. 190, note 43.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 43.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 162, ill. in color.
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. 667, ill. vol. 2, as Quatre baigneuses.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. pp. 205 (detail) and 274, p. 276, no. 8, ill., p. 302 listed without no., as Quatre baigneuses, c. 1900.
Giles, Laura, and Carol Armstrong, eds. Cézanne in Focus, Watercolors from The Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Art Museum, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 42, fig. 2.
Baumann, Felix A., ed. Cézanne—Aufbruch in die Moderne. Essen: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 61, ill., as Quatre baigneuses.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 206; vol. 2, p. 145, as Quatre baigneuses.
Elderfield, John. "Picasso's Extreme Cézanne." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 246, pl. 72, as Four Bathers.
Record last updated February 18, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Quatre baigneuses, 1888–90 (FWN 956)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=647 (accessed on January 14, 2025).
