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Catalogue entry

FWN 628
Une moderne Olympia
1873–74
Alternate titles: A Modern Olympia; A Modern Olympia (Sketch); Die neue Olympia; Eine moderne Olympia; L'Olympia; La moderne Olympia; La Nouvelle Olympia; Moderne Olympia; Une moderne Olympia
Rewald (225): 1873–74; Venturi revised: 1872–74; Cézanne fils: 1875; Venturi (225): 1872–73; Rivière: 1868 (retouched in 1872?); Vollard: 1872; Cooper: c.1873; Gowing: c.1873; Ratcliffe: probably 1873; Other: P. Gachet: 1872
Oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 21 5/8 in. (46 x 55 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 269 and [264], Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1875
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (RF 1951 31)

Keywords

Provenance
Dr. Paul Gachet, Auvers-sur-Oise;
Paul Gachet fils, Auvers-sur-Oise;
Musée du Louvre, Paris (1951, Gift of Paul Gachet);
Musée du Louvre, galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris (1951-1986);
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (1986)
Exhibition History
1874 Paris
Studio Nadar (35, boulevard des Capucines), Paris, Première exposition de la Société anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, April 15–May 15, 1874, no. 43, as Une moderne Olympia, Esquisse, lent by Dr. Gachet.
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 28, as La moderne Olympia, lent by Gachet.
1939b Paris
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 7, as Une moderne Olympia, lent by P. Gachet.
1953c Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Monticelli et le baroque provençal, June 19–September 15, 1953, no. 13, as Une moderne Olympia, c. 1872-1873, lent by Louvre.
1954 Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 25, pl. XI, lent by Musée du Louvre.
1954–55 Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Van Gogh et les peintres d'Auvers-sur-Oise, November 26, 1954–February 28, 1955, no. 8, as Une moderne Olympia, 1873.
1956 Aix-en-Provence
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 11, ill. lent by Louvre.
1974b Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 6, ill. in color, as Une moderne Olympia.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 28, shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
1999 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Un ami de Cézanne et de Van Gogh: le docteur Gachet, January 28–April 26, 1999, no. 1 (P.G. II-25), fig. 35, 37-40a, 41 and 43 (details), pp. 36–43 (ill. with copies by Paul van Ryssel (Dr Gachet) and Blanche Derousse and technical comparison), as A Modern Olympia (Sketch), 1873-74, lent by Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Van Gogh: The Collection of Doctor Gachet, May 25–August 15, 1999; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, September 24–December 5, 1999.
2011–12 Paris
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 48, ill., p. 97, as La moderne Olympia, lent by Musée d'Orsay.
2014–15a Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Sade: attaquer le soleil, September 14, 2014–January 25, 2015, no. 325, ill., listed p. 326, as Une moderne Olympia.
2019c Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Le modèle noir: de Géricault à Matisse, March 26–July 21, 2019, no. 115, listed p. 356, ill. pp. 162-163, as Une moderne Olympia.
2024–25 Paris and traveling
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Paris 1874 Inventer l'impressionnisme, March 26–July 14, 2024, no. 80, ill. (shown in Paris only). Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, September 8, 2024–January 20, 2025.
Published References
Leroy 1874
Leroy, Louis. "L'exposition des impressionnistes." Le Charivari, April 25, 1874, p. 80, as Moderne Olympia.
Montifaud 1874
Montifaud, Marc de. "Exposition du boulevard des Capucines." L'Artiste (May 1, 1874), p. 310, as L'Olympia.
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 10, as La Nouvelle Olympia.
Vollard 1921
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 40, as Die neue Olympia, dated 1872.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 198, listed.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 26, as Die neue Olympia, 1872.
Rewald 1936a
Rewald, John. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle, special number, Cézanne (May 1936), p. 8, as La moderne Olympia.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 225, ill. vol. II, as Une moderne Olympia.
Rewald 1936e
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, pp. 81–82, fig. 15.
Rewald 1937a
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. 54, as La moderne Olympia.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 34, p. 179, ill. (analysis on p. 314).
Rewald 1939c
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, p. 202, fig. 43.
Rewald 1946
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, pp. 245, 248, ill.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. VIII, listed p. 178.
Rewald 1948b
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 50.
Rewald 1950a
Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Phoenix House, 1950, fig. 53.
Florisoone 1952
Florisoone, Michel. "Van Gogh et les peintres d'Auvers chez le Dr. Gachet." L'Amour de l'art 31, nos. 64-66 (November, 1952), p. 19, ill.
Rewald 1952
Rewald, John. "Gachet's Unknown Gems Emerge." Art News 51, no. 1 (March 1952), p. 18, ill.
Raynal 1954
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1954, p. 34, ill.
Beucken 1955
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], pp. 123, 128.
Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, p. 103.
Gachet 1956
Gachet, Paul. Deux amis des impressionnistes: le Docteur Gachet et Murer. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1956, pp. 57–58.
Adhémar 1958
Adhémar, Hélène. Catalogue des peintures, pastels, sculptures impressionnistes du Musée du Louvre. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, pp. 16–17, no. 31.
Bazin 1958
Bazin, Germain. Trésors de l'impressionnisme au Louvre. Paris: A. Somogy, 1958, pp. 142-143, ill. 1873.
Sterling and Adhémar 1958
Sterling, Charles, and Hélène Adhémar. La Peinture au Musée du Louvre, vol. I. Paris: Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, fig. 248.
Mathey 1959
Mathey, François. Les Impressionnistes et leur temps. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1959, p. 25, ill., as Une moderne Olympia.
Hofmann 1960
Hofmann, Werner. Das irdische Paradies. Munich: Prestel, 1960, pl. 124.
Novotny 1961
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 1961, pl. 3.
Rewald 1961
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 323, ill.
Beucken 1962
Beucken, Jean de. Cézanne. New York: Viking Press, 1962, p. 49, ill.
Brion-Guerry 1966
Brion-Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Albin Michel, 1966, pp. 152-153, as Une moderne Olympia.
Pool 1967
Pool, Phoebe. Impressionism. New York: Praeger, 1967, pl. 142, as A Modern Olympia, dated 1872–73.
Murphy 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 67.
Schapiro 1968
Schapiro, Meyer. "The Apples of Cézanne: An Essay on the Meaning of Still-Life." Art News Annual 34 (1968), pl. 10.
Ikegami 1969
Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, pl. 7.
Brion 1971
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1971, ill. p. 30.
Adhémar et al. 1973
Adhémar, Hélène, and Anne Dayez. Musée du Jeu de Paume. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1973, listed p. 140, ill. p. 17, as Eine moderne Olympia, c. 1873.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 27, ill.
Elgar 1975
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 23.
Wadley 1975
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1975, pl. 19.
Venturi 1978
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 60, ill.
Monneret 1978a
Monneret, Sophie. Cézanne, Zola . . . La fraternité du génie. Paris: Denoël, 1978, ill. cover and p. 19.
Monneret 1978b
Monneret, Sophie. L'Impressionnisme et son époque: dictionnaire international illustré. Paris: Denoël, 1978, vol. 1, ill. p. 120.
Adriani 1980
Adriani, Götz. Paul Cézanne: 'Der Liebeskampf'. Munich: Piper, 1980, p. 12, pl. 3.
Krumrine 1980
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Cézanne's Bathers: Form and Content." Arts Magazine 54, no. 9 (May 1980), p. 115.
Ponente 1980
Ponente, Nello. Paul Cézanne. Bologna: Capitol, 1980, pl. 7.
Plazy 1981
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne. Fribourg: Editions Medea, 1981, p. 33.
Ponente 1981
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Covre: pl. 4.
Geist 1982
Geist, Sidney. "A Skull in Cézanne's 'A Modern Olympia.'" Iris Notes in the History of Art (February 1982), p. 15, fig. 12.
Harris 1982
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 41, ill. in color.
Müller 1982
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 8.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 22.
Lucie-Smith 1984
Lucie-Smith, Edward. Chefs-d’œuvre impressionnistes du Musée du Jeu de Paume. London: Thames & Hudson, 1984, p. 25, ill.
Wetzel 1984
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, p. 20/21, ill. in color.
Bonafoux 1986
Bonafoux, Pascal. Les Impressionnistes portraits et confidences. Geneva: Skira, 1986, p. 97, ill.
Compin et al. 1986
Compin, Isabelle et Anne Roquebert. Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du musée du Louvre et du musée d'Orsay. 3, École Française, A-K. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 114, ill., as Une moderne Olympia, c. 1873-74.
Thomas 1987
Thomas, Denis. The Age of the Impressionists. Middlesex, U.K.: Holiday House, 1987, p. 152, ill.
Krumrine 1988
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Parisian Writers and the Early Work of Cézanne." In Cézanne: The Early Years. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 18.
Lévêque 1988
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 65, ill. in color.
Plazy 1988
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 46, ill. in color.
Teboul 1988
Teboul, Jacques. Les Victoires de Cézanne. Paris: Adam Biro, 1988, no. 67, ill.
Distel 1989
Distel, Anne. Les Collectionneurs des impressionnistes: Amateurs et marchands. Paris: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1989, p. 201, ill.
Lewis 1989
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 105, fig. 50.
Wadley 1989
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1989, p. 25, ill. in color.
Krumrine 1989b
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Paul Cézanne: The Bathers." In Paul Cézanne: The Bathers. Basel: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, ill. 51 p. 87.
Coutagne 1990c
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne, tradition et modernité." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 84, fig. 31.
Naubert-Riser 1992
Naubert-Riser, Constance. Cézanne. London: Studio Editions, 1994, p. 61.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 67, fig. 54.
Arrouye 1995
Arrouye, Jean. Cézanne: Paris, Provence. Paris: Textuel, 1995, p. 99, ill.
Bonafoux 1995
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 153, ill.
Patin 1995
Patin, Sylvie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 48.
Schmitt 1995
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, p. 35.
Sollers 1995
Sollers, Philippe. Le Paradis de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, 1995, p. 106-07, ill.
Cahn 1995b
Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 55, 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. 225, ill. vol. 2, as Une moderne Olympia.
Smith 1996
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 31, fig. 23, as A Modern Olympia.
Harvey 1998
Harvey, Benjamin. "Cézanne and Zola: A Reassessment of 'L'Eternel féminin.'" Burlington, vol. 140, no. 1142 (May 1998), p. 312, fig. 18.
Maloon 1998
Maloon, Terence. "Classic Cézanne." In Classic Cézanne. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, p. 34, fig. 14.
Stein 1999
Stein, Susan, with the assistance of Julie Steiner. "Summary Catalogue of Works by Major Artists (Volume II, Cézanne [catalogue raisonné by Paul Gachet fils)." Cézanne to Van Gogh: The Collection of Doctor Gachet. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. Exhibition catalogue, p. 207, P.G. II-25, ill., (no. 1 of cat.), as A Modern Olympia (Sketch), 1873-74.
Baumann 2000
Baumann, Felix A. "Beyond the Uniform Picture Surface." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 24, fig. 5, as Une moderne Olympia.
Brettell 2000
Brettell, Richard R. "The Impression in 1874." In Impression: painting quckly in France 1860-1890. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 3, as A Modern Olympia.
Coutagne 2000
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne au fil de l'eau." In Au fil de l'eau. Aix-en-Provence: Ville d'Aix-en-Provence, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 18, as Une moderne Olympia.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 139, fig. 85.
Mai 2001
Mai, Ekkehard. "Entzauberung und Mystifikation: Wechselbilder der Venus-Olympia von Cabanel bis Cézanne." In Faszination Venus: Bilder einer Göttin von Cranach bis Cabanel. Cologne: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. Snoeck - Ducaju & Zoon, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 194, fig. 14, as Moderne Olympia, 1872/73.
Platzman 2001
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, pp. 128, 130–31, 200, fig. 33, as Une moderne Olympia.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. pp. 23 and 253 (detail), p. 310, no. 262, ill. c. 1873.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 86, fig. 2.35, as Une moderne Olympia.
Locke 2003
Locke, Nancy. "Cézanne's 'Bathers', Watteau, and the Idea of Fantasy." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 77, no. 1/2 (2003), p. 22, fig. 7.
Andersen 2004
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 179, fig. 93.
Adriani 2005
Adriani, Götz. "Eine Moderne Olympia." In Bordell und Boudoir. Schauplätze der Moderne: Cézanne, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 69, as Eine moderne Olympia.
Feilchenfeldt 2005c
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Motive: Versuch einer neuen Ordnung." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 203, ill.
Kear 2006
Kear, Jon. "'Frenhofer: c'est moi': Cézanne's Nudes and Balzac's 'Le Chef-d-oeuvre inconnu.'" The Cambridge Quarterly 35, no. 4 (2006), p. 352, fig. 2.
Mothe et al. 2006
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, pp. 112–13, ill.
D'Souza 2008
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, pl. 6, ill.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 71; vol. 2, p. 70, as Une moderne Olympia.
Mitchell 2009
Mitchell, Mark D. "A New Tradition: Cézanne, Demuth, and the Invention of Modern Watercolor." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 282, fig. 10.3, as A Modern Olympia.
Vial 2011
Vial, Marie-Paule. "Olympia." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 97, ill., as Une moderne Olympia.
Coutagne 2011d
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 181, fig. 123.
Müller 2012
Müller, Christina. Der Schritt durch den Rahmen: Bild und Weiblichkeitsmythos im Werk Brigitte Reimanns. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2012, fig. 7 p. 261, as Eine moderne Olympia, 1873.
Whiteley 2012
Whiteley, Linda. "Reception of Cézanne: Cézanne and the Past." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 147, fig. 83, p. 143 (detail), as A Modern Olympia.
Dombrowski 2013
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, p. 73, fig. 29 (detail) and pl. 5.
Rubin 2013
Rubin, James. "Amitiés et théories: Courbet/Proudhon, Cézanne/Zola ou comment Cézanne connu Courbet." In Courbet/Cézanne, La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 60, fig. 11.
Pola Museum of Art 2015
Cézanne: Pioneer of Modern Art. Kanagawa: Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 28, fig. 5.
Kendall 2017
Kendall, Richard. "Cézanne and His Early Critics." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 2.
Armstrong 2018
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 6.
Cezanne 2021
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 37.
Groom 2022
Groom, Gloria. "'At Once Unknown and Famous' – Cezanne in Paris." In Cezanne. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022, p. 25, fig. 2.
Nagaï 2022a
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 36.
Record last updated March 1, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Une moderne Olympia, 1873–74 (FWN 628)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=229 (accessed on April 24, 2024).