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 945
Cinq baigneuses
c.1885
Alternate titles: Badende; Bagnanti; Baigneuses; Cinq Femmes nues; Composition; Five Bathers; Nude Figures
Rewald (554): c.1885; Venturi revised: 1888–90; Venturi (542): 1885–87
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 25 5/8 in. (65 x 65 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 398, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1885
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 24, as Cinq Femmes nues, lent by E. Fabbri.
Biennale, Venice, Italy, Mostra Individuale di Paul Cézanne, April 15–October 31, 1920, no. 24, (dated 1890), as Bagnanti, lent by Fabbri.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 43, as Baigneuses, tentative identification, lent by Fabbri.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 42, ill., as Cinq baigneuses, c. 1885, lent by Alphonse Kann, St. Germain-en-Laye.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 31, ill., as Cinq baigneuses, lent by A. Kann.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Exposition Cézanne (1839-1906), organisée à l'occasion de son centenaire au profit de l’œuvre de l'allaitement maternel, February 21–April 1, 1939, no. 18, ill., as Cinq baigneuses, 1887, lent by Alphonse Kahn.
Rosenberg & Helft, London, Exhibition Cézanne (1839-1906) to celebrate his centenary, April 19–May 20, 1939, no. 12, ill., (dated 1887), lent by A.K.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, French Masters, XIXth and XXth Century, June–July 1952, no. 5, ill.
Paul Rosenberg, New York, 19th Century French Painting, October 18–November 13, 1954, no. 1.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, La Femme: Peintures and Sculptures, 1960, no. 3, ill.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 49, discussed pp. 137–59, pl. 101.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 62, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, L'autre collection: hommage à Ernst et Hildy Beyeler, August 19, 2007–January 6, 2008, listed p. 278, ill. p. 19, as Cinq baigneuses, 1885-1887.
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan: in nieuw perspectief, October 17, 2009–January 24, 2010, no. 17, ill., as Cinq baigneuses.
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne bis Richter: Meisterwerke aus dem Kunstmuseum Basel, February 14, 2015–February 16, 2016, no. 4, ill., as Cinq baigneuses, 1885-87.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 88, ill.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 106, ill. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Tugendhold, Yakov. "Nudity in French Art." Apollon (1910), ill. between pp. 24 and 25.
Hausenstein, Wilhelm. Der nackte Mensch in der Kunst aller Zeiten und Völker. Munich: R. Piper10, 1913, fig. 69.
Vollard, Ambroise. "Cézanne and Zola." Translated by Enrique Cross. The Soil 1, no. 1 (December 1916), p. 15, ill.
Henraux, Lucien. "I Cézanne della raccolta Fabbri." Dedalo vol. 1, no. 1 (1920), ill. p. 70, as Bagnanti, 1890.
Gasquet, Joachim. "Cézanne à l'atelier." L'Amour de l'art 2, 10 (October 1921), ill. p. 332, as Baigneuses.
Fontainas, André and Louis Vauxcelles. "Paul Cézanne." Histoire générale de l'art français de la Révolution à nos jours: la peinture, la gravure, le dessin. Paris: Librairie de France, 1922, ill. p. 234, as Baigneuses.
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 418, as Composition.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 88, as Badende (Photo: Thannhauser).
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, p. 85, fig. 51, pl. XXXVIII.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 14], as Baigneuses.
Peschcke-Koedt, Matthias. "Tidens Kunst: og Fremtidens." Samleren 11 (May 1934), p. 80, ill. detail of seated figure as well.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 542, ill. vol. II, as Cinq baigneuses.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 85, pl. XXXVIII fig. 51, as Nude Figures.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 40, fig. 57.
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, vol. 1, p. 74, fig. 34.
Grünigen, Berchtold von. Vom Impressionismus zum Tachismus. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1964, p. 25, fig. 29.
Lindsay, Jack. "Cézanne and Zola." Art and Artists 4, no. 6 (September 1969), p. 24, ill.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 117, fig. 6.
Geist, Sidney. "Cézanne: Metamorphosis of the Self." Artscribe, no. 26 (December 1980), pp. 14–15, fig. 13.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Cézanne's Bathers: Form and Content." Arts Magazine 54, no. 9 (May 1980), pp. 119, 120, fig. 18.
Jouffroy, Jean Pierre. La Mesure de Nicolas de Staél. Neuchâtel: Editions Ides et Calendes, 1981, p. 170, ill.
Ballas, Guila. "Unknown Sources for Cézanne's Women Bathers." In Norms and Variations in Art: Essays in Honor of Moshe Barasch. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1983, pp. 189, 191.
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, p. 51, ill. in color.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 127, ill. b/w.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 107, ill. in color.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 35, ill.
Thomson, Richard. "The creative copy in late nineteenth-century French art." In Drawings: Masters and Methods: Raphael to Redon
Papers presented to the Ian Woodner Master Drawings Symposium at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, ed. by Diana Dethloff. London: Philip Wilson Publishers in association with The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1992, p. 35, fig. 37, as Five Bathers, c. 1885-87.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Du plongeon aux baigneuses." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. pp. 50-51, 1885-87.
Garb, Tamar. "Visuality and Sexuality in Cézanne's Late Bathers." Oxford Art Journal 19, no. 2 (1996), p. 51, fig. 7.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Paris and London: Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 138, no. 1117 (April 1996), fig. 48 p. 266, as Cinq baigneuses, 1877-78.
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. 554, ill. vol. 2, as Cinq baigneuses.
Boehm, Gottfried. "Cézanne and the Unfinished." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 30, fig. 1, as Five Bathers.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. pp. 67 and 101 (detail), p. 277, no. 19, ill., as Cinq baigneuses, 1885-87.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Cézanne: le idee, la mostra." In Cezanne: Il padre dei moderni. Milano: Mazzotta, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 29.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 199, fig. 5.12, as Cinq baigneuses.
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, p. 194, ill. in b/w.
Bardazzi, Francesca, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Translated by John Venerella. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 263, fig. 24, as Cinq baigneuses, with erroneous illustration.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 152; vol. 2, p. 112, as Cinq baigneuses.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 175, fig. 124.
Elderfield, John. "Picasso's Extreme Cézanne." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 218, fig. 8.14, as Five Bathers.
Green, Christopher. "Cézanne and Léger: Realizing Sensations." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 187, fig. 7.2, as Five Bathers, dated 1885–87.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 45, fig. 41.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 179, fig. 122, dated 1885–87.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 100, fig. 2, as Five Bathers.
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 46.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Cinq baigneuses, c.1885 (FWN 945)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=541 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
