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Catalogue entry

FWN 954
Le Bain
1892–94
Alternate titles: Badende; Badende (Männer); Baigneurs; Die Badenden; El baño; Etude de baigneurs; Le bain; Le Bain, six baigneurs; Les baigneurs. Etude
Rewald (754): 1892–94; Venturi revised: 1885–88; Venturi (588): 1892–94
Oil on canvas
10 3/16 x 15 11/16 in. (26 x 40 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3516, Baigneurs, 27 x 41 cm (100 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 202, Annotated: 1885
Pushkin Museum, Moscow

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Ivan Morosov, Moscow (Oct. 5, 1909);
First Museum of Modern Western Painting, Moscow (1918);
State Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow (1923);
Pushkin Museum, Moscow (1948)
Exhibition History
1926 Moscow
Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, 1926, no. 12.
1956a Leningrad
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 16, ill.
1965 Berlin
Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Von Delacroix bis Picasso: ein Jahrhundert französischer Malerei, September–October 1965, listed p. 31, ill. in b/w p. 119, as Die Badenden, c. 1890, erroneously listed as Venturi 630.
1972 Otterlo
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, the Netherlands, From van Gogh to Picasso: Nineteenth and twentieth - century Paintings and Drawings from the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Hermitage in Leningrad, April 30–July 16, 1972, no. 3, ill. in b/w, and col. pl. p.130.
1973 Washington, D.C. and traveling
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings from the U.S.S.R.: lent by the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad [and] the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, March 31–April 29, 1973, no. 3, ill., as Le Bain, c. 1890. Traveled to: Knoedler Gallery, New York, May 3–June 3, 1973; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, June 15–July 8, 1973; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, July 18–August 12, 1973; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, August 22–September 16, 1973; The Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, Detroit, August 26–October 21, 1973.
1979 Kyoto and traveling
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, French Modern Paintings from the collections in the USSR, 1979, no. 6, ill.
1985 Venice and traveling
Museo Correr alla Napoleonica, Venice, Italy, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso: 42 capolavori dai musei sovietici., February 23–April 14, 1985, no. 7. Traveled to: Musei Capitolini, Rome, April 23–June 10, 1985.
1987 Lugano
Villa Favorita, Lugano, Switzerland, Impressionisten und Post-Impressionisten aus sowjetischen Museen II, August 9–November 15, 1987, no. 18, ill., as Les baigneurs. Etude, c. 1890.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 55, pl. 148.
1993–94 Essen and traveling
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Morozov and Shchukin: The Russian Collectors, June 25–October 31, 1993, no. 23, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum, Moscow, November 30, 1993–January 30, 1994; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, February 16–April 16, 1994.
1998 St. Petersburg and traveling
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 32, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
1999–2000 Riehen/Basel
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 20, ill., p. 39, as Le Bain.
2001–02 Madrid
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Forma. El ideal clásico en el arte moderno, October 9, 2001–January 13, 2002, no. 25, p. 204, ill. p. 85, as El baño, 1892-1894, lent by The Pushkin Museum, Moscow.
2014a Madrid
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, possible loan, hors catalogue.
2017 Parma
Fondazione Magnani-Rocca, Parma, Cézanne/Morandi La pittura è essenziale, April 21–September 10, 2017.
2021–22 Paris
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, La collection Morozov: icônes de l'art moderne, September 22, 2021–February 22, 2022, p. 490, ill. 289, as Baigneurs.
Published References
Meier-Graefe 1910
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1910, ill. p. 33.
Makovsky 1912
Makovsky, Serguei. "[French artists in I. Morosov's collection, Moscow]." Apollon (St. Petersburg) 3, nos. 3–4 (March 1912), listed p. 23, as Etude de baigneurs.
Burger 1913
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 45, as Badende (Männer).
Hausenstein 1913
Hausenstein, Wilhelm. Der nackte Mensch in der Kunst aller Zeiten und Völker. Munich: R. Piper10, 1913, fig. 570.
Meier-Graefe 1913
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, ill. p. 33.
Meier-Graefe 1918a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 151.
Burger 1919
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1919, p. 51.
Burger 1920
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1920, pl. 51.
Meier-Graefe 1922
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 183.
Burger 1923
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1923, pl. 51.
Meier-Graefe 1923
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper, 1923, ill. p. 49.
Ternovietz 1925
Ternovietz, Boris Nikolaevich. "Le Musée d'Art moderne de Moscou (Anciennes collections Stchoukine et Morosoff)." L'Amour de l'art 6, no. 12 (December 1925), p. 470, ill. p. 466, as Baigneurs.
Meier-Graefe 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LIII.
Museum of Modern Western Art 1928
Catalogue du Musée d'art occidental moderne. Moscow: Museum of Modern Western Art, 1928, no. 565.
Bertram 1929
Bertram, Anthony. Cézanne. London: Studio, 1929, pl. 10.
Réau 1929
Réau, Louis. "III: Musée d'art occidental moderne à Moscou." In Catalogue de l'art français dans les musées russes. Paris: A. Colin, 1929, no. 747.
Iavorskaia 1935a
Iavorskaia, Nina. Cézanne. Moscow: Ogiz-Izogiz, 1935, pl. 24.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 58, ill. vol. II, as Le bain.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 135, listed p. 168.
Cahiers d'Art 1950
"L'Art moderne français dans…le Musée d'Art Moderne Occidentale." Cahiers d'Art (1950), no. 21, listed p. 339, as Etude de baigneurs.
Sterling 1958
Sterling, Charles. Great French Painting in the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Abrams, 1958, pl. 94.
Descargues 1961
Descargues, Pierre. The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1961, p. 219, ill.
Feist 1963
Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, p. 36, pl. 76.
Sedova 1974
Sedova, Tat'jana Alekseevna. From Manet to Picasso. Moscow: Izdatelʹstvo Izobrazitelʹnoe Iskusstvo, 1974, no. 29, ill.
Reff 1977b
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 118.
Kuznetsova and Georgievskaia 1979
Kuznetsova, Irina Aleksandrovna, and Evgenia Georgievskaia. French Painting from the Pushkin Museum: 17th to 20th Century. Leningrad: Aurora, 1979, no. 176, ill.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, pp. 138-139, pl. 30.
Bessonova and Williams 1986
Bessonova, Marina, and William Williams. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Hermitage, Leningrad, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Park Lane, 1986, p. 169, 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. 754, ill. vol. 2, as Le Bain.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. p. 176, p. 292, no. 125, ill., as Le Bain, six baigneurs, 1892-94.
Baldassari, ed. 2021
Baldassari, Anne, ed. La collection Morozov: icônes de l'art moderne. Paris: Editions Gallimard and Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, p. 490 (listed), ill. p. 289.

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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Bain, 1892–94 (FWN 954)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=731 (accessed on April 18, 2024).