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Catalogue entry

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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 592
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Alexander Lewin, Guben;
Mrs. Alix Kurz, New York
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (1956)
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen (1956)
Exhibition History
1890 Brussels
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.
1927b Berlin
Hugo Perls, Berlin, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, Zweite Ausstellung, January–February 1927, no. 5, ill., as Aktkomposition.
1933–34a Rotterdam
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.
1938b Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 36, as Quatre baigneuses, lent by Private collection.
1958 Copenhagen
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, French and Danish Paintings, 1958, no. 17.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
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.
2000 Copenhagen
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.
2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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.
2008 Humlebæk
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.
2012 Aarhus
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 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LII.
Hazama, Adachi, and Nakogawa, eds. 1935
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 726, ill. vol. II, as Quatre baigneuses.
Beucken 1955
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 221.
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 1957
Meddelelser fra Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen, 1957, p. 16, ill.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 38, fig. 41.
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 1958
Catalogue: French and Danish Paintings. Copenhagen: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1958, no. 868a.
Gazette des beaux-arts 1960
"[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.
Feist 1963
Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, p. 36, pl. 77.
Wadley 1975
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1975, pl. 57.
Rubin 1977a
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 191.
Reff 1977b
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 118, fig. 8.
Reff 1977c
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 1980
Geist, Sidney. "Cézanne: Metamorphosis of the Self." Artscribe, no. 26 (December 1980), fig. 8.
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. 190, note 43.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 43.
Plazy 1988
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 162, ill. in color.
Wadley 1989
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1989, p. 64, ill. in b/w.
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. 667, ill. vol. 2, as Quatre baigneuses.
Ballas 2002
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 and Armstrong 2002
Giles, Laura, and Carol Armstrong, eds. Cézanne in Focus, Watercolors from The Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection. Pricneton, N.J.: Princeton University Art Museum, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 42, fig. 2.
Baumann 2004
Baumann, Felix A., ed. Cézanne—Aufbruch in die Moderne. Essen: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 61, ill., as Quatre baigneuses.
Machotka 2008
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 2009
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 April 25, 2024).