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)
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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
Provenance
Exhibition History
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.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 109, as Baigneuses, lent by S. Brown.
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.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 53, lent by Private collection.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 60, pl. 183.
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.
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.
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
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, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 539, ill. vol. II, as Baigneuses.
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, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 161, p. 277, ill. (analysis p. 390).
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, Melvin. "A Problem in Cézanne's 'Grandes Baigneuses.'" The Burlington Magazine 104, no. 710 (May 1962), p. 203.
Grünigen, Berchtold von. Vom Impressionismus zum Tachismus. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1964, p. 25, fig. 33.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 117, fig. 5.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 32, ill.
Deuchler, Florens. Die französischen Impressionisten und ihre Vorläufer. Baden: Stiftung "Langmatt" Sidney und Jenny Brown, 1990, no. 13, ill.
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, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 277, no. 20, ill., as Huit baigneuses, 1892-94.
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, 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 16, 2024).
