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 978
Baigneuses
1902–06
Alternate titles: Badende; Bain de femmes; Bañistas; Bathers; Die Badenden; Ébauche des grandes baigneuses; Le Bain; Paysage avec baigneuses
Rewald (877): 1902–06; Venturi revised: 1900–1905; Venturi (725): 1898–1900; Rivière: c.1900; Ratcliffe: early 1900s (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
28 7/8 x 36 3/8 in. (73.5 x 92.5 cm)
Private collection, Qatar
Provenance
Private collection
Private collection, Qatar
Exhibition History
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 43, as Paysage avec baigneuses, c. 1903, lent by Vollard.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 106, as Baigneuses, lent by Vollard.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 47, ill.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 63, ill. lent by Feilchenfeldt.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 63, ill. lent by Private collection.
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, (Kunsthaus Lempertz), Cologne, Cézanne, Ausstellung zum Gedenken an sein 50. Todesjahr, December 1956–January 1957, no. 31, ill. lent by Private collection.
Städtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany, Verkannte Kunst, June 16–July 31, 1957, no. 24, ill., as Badende, 1895-1905.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 42, pl. 28.
Stadthalle, Wolfsburg, Germany, Französische Malerei von Delacroix bis Picasso, April 8–May 31, 1961, no. 21, pl. 14, as Badende, 1900-1905, lent by Private collection.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition Cézanne: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 1–August 15, 1961, no. 19, pl. 14.
Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, Wegbereiter der modernen Malerei: Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Seurat, May 4–July 14, 1963, no. 13, pl. 55, as Die Badenden, 1900-1905, lent by Private collection.
Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Die Welt des Impressionismus, June 29–September 29, 1963, no. 12, as Badende, lent by Private collection, Zurich.
Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland, Chefs-d'œuvre des collections suisses: de Manet à Picasso, May 1–October 25, 1964, no. 105, ill., as Baigneuses, 1898-1905, lent by Private collection, Zürich.
Orangerie, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections suisses de Manet à Picasso, May 10–October 2, 1967, no. 94, ill. lent by Private collection, Zurich.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 55. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 41, pl. 186. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 104, ill.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European Painting, November 17, 1979–March 16, 1980, no. 48, ill., (dated 1902–06), as Baigneuses, lent by Feilchenfeldt, Zürich. Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 25–September 1, 1980.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 72, pl. 199.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 83, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 221, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 55, ill., as Baigneuses, 1902-06, lent by Private collection.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 70, ill., as Baigneuses. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 127, ill. shown in Aix only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 48, fig. 43, pp. 41, 344, as Baigneuses, shown on New York and Chicago only. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 223, listed.
Dormoy, Marie. "Die Cézanne—Ausstellung im Théâtre Pigalle." Kunst und Künstler 28, no. 6 (1930), ill. p. 247.
Einstein, Carl. "Exposition Cézanne (Galerie Pigalle)." Documents 2, no. 1 (1930), p. 55, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 725, ill. vol. II, as Ébauche des grandes baigneuses.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 56.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 156, listed.
Richardson, John. "Cézanne at Aix-en-Provence." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 644 (November 1956), p. 412, fig. 26 p. [413], as Ébauche des grandes baigneuses, 1902-03.
Novotny, Fritz. "Der Reiz des Unvollendeten bei Cézanne." Du (Zürich) 19, no. 4 (April 1959), p. 47, ill.
Keers, Frits. "Lausanne 1964." Journaal van de nederlandse Musea voor moderne Kunst 10, no. 4 (1965), p. 97, fig. d.
Cherpin, Jean et al. "L'Oeuvre gravé de Cézanne." Arts et Livres de Provence (Marseille) 82 (1972), ill. p. [57], as Bain de femmes.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 44.
Sutton, Denys. "The Paradoxes of Cézanne." Apollo (London) 100, no. 150 (August 1974), fig. 12 p. 104.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 118.
Embiricos, Georges A. "Cézanne et la répétition." Connaissance des Arts, no. 315 (May 1978), p. 72, ill. p. 73.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 77, ill. in color.
Bozal, Valeriano. "Paul Cézanne: la mirada es le leguaje." La Balsa de la Medusa (Madrid) 36 (1995), p. 98, ill. p. 97, as Bañistas, Private collection, Zurich.
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. 877, ill. vol. 2, as Baigneuses.
Shiff, Richard. "Mark, Motif, Materiality." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 102, fig. 4, as Baigneuses.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. p. 87, p. 278, no. 26, ill., as Baigneuses, c. 1905.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézanne: Vollendet, Unvollendet." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 285, ill.
Jensen, Robert. "Vollard and Cézanne: An Anatomy of a Relationship." In Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 41, fig. 43, as Bathers.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 299; vol. 2, p. 206, as Baigneuses.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 181, fig. 133.
Shiff, Richard. "Cézanne." In 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes, edited by Barbara Schaefer. Cologne: Wienend Verlag, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 105, fig. 13.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneuses, 1902–06 (FWN 978)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=851 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
