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Catalogue entry

SIK (Jean-Pierre Kuhn), Zurich
FWN 959
Baigneuses
1890–95
Alternate titles: Badende; Badende Frauen; Huit baigneuses
Rewald (669): 1890–95; Venturi revised: c.1896; Venturi (539): 1883–87; Ratcliffe: before photograph of 1889, possibly 1886–88; Reff: probably 1892–94; Other: Waldfogel: circa 1888
Oil on canvas
11 3/16 x 20 1/16 in. (28.5 x 51 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 239, Annotated: 1885

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Sidney Brown, Baden (Sept. 27, 1915);
Stiftung Langmatt Sidney and Jenny Brown, Baden
Exhibition History
1916 Winterthur
Kunstverein, Winterthur, Switzerland, Französische Malerei, October 29–November 26, 1916, no. 29, as Baigneuses, lent by Brown. Traveled to: Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, January 10–February 4, 1917.
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 109, as Baigneuses, lent by S. Brown.
1938e Paris
Galerie de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, La peinture française du XIXe siècle en Suisse, March–June 1938, no. 8, pl. VI, lent by anon.
1956 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 53, lent by Private collection.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 60, pl. 183.
1995 Luxembourg
Casino, Luxembourg, Luxe, calme et volupté: Regards sur le post-impressionnisme, collectionneurs à Winterthur et Baden au début du XXe siècle, January 14–March 26, 1995, no. 31, fig. p. 117.
2006 Baden
Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland, Renoir, Cézanne, Picasso und ihr Galerist Ambroise Vollard, April 23–July 16, 2006, n. n., p. 127, ill., as Baigneuses. Traveled to: Musée Jenisch, Vevey, August 18–November 5, 2006.
2020 Baden
Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland, Herzkammer: 30 Jahre Langmatt; Chamber of the Heart: 30 Years of Museum Langmatt, March 1–August 16, 2020, pp. 122-126, ill., as Badende, c. 1895/95.
Published References
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 48.
Courthion 1926b
Courthion, Pierre. "L'art français dans les collections privées en Suisse: La Collection Brown-Bovery." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 1 (January 1926), p. 32, ill. p. 27, as Baigneuses.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 539, ill. vol. II, as Baigneuses.
Gauthier 1938
Gauthier, Maximilien. "L'art français du XIXe siècle dans les collections suisses: une heure avec Charles Montag devant les chefs-d'oeuvre de la peinture française réunis à la Galerie des 'Beaux-Arts.'" Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 285 (June 17, 1938), p. 12, as Baigneuses.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 161, p. 277, ill. (analysis p. 390).
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 163, listed p. 174.
Ueberwasser 1952
Ueberwasser, Walter. "Corot, Renoir, PIssarro, Cézanne und Degas: Aus einer schweizerischen Privatsammlung." DU 12, no. 12 (December 1952), p. 48, ill., as Badende Frauen.
Waldfogel 1962
Waldfogel, Melvin. "A Problem in Cézanne's 'Grandes Baigneuses.'" The Burlington Magazine 104, no. 710 (May 1962), p. 203.
Grünigen 1964
Grünigen, Berchtold von. Vom Impressionismus zum Tachismus. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1964, p. 25, fig. 33.
Reff 1977b
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 117, fig. 5.
Teboul 1988
Teboul, Jacques. Les Victoires de Cézanne. Paris: Adam Biro, 1988, no. 40, ill.
Du 1989
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 32, ill.
Deuchler 1990
Deuchler, Florens. Die französischen Impressionisten und ihre Vorläufer. Baden: Stiftung "Langmatt" Sidney und Jenny Brown, 1990, no. 13, 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. 669, ill. vol. 2, as Baigneuses.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 277, no. 20, ill., as Huit baigneuses, 1892-94.
Preiswerk-Lösel 2005
Preiswerk-Lösel, Eva-Maria, ed. A House for the Impressionists: The Langmatt Museum. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2005, pp. 162–65, ill., cat. no. 23, pp. 258–59, dated circa 1895–96.
Koella 2006
Koella, Rudolf. "Vollard und die Schweiz." In Renoir, Cézanne, Picasso und ihr Galerist Ambroise Vollard, Gloor, Lukas, Koella, Rudolf, Velhagen, Rudolf. Heidelberg: Edition Braus im Wachter Verlag, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 127, as Baigneuses, c. 1895-96.

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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneuses, 1890–95 (FWN 959)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=649 (accessed on April 20, 2024).