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Catalogue entry

FWN 953
Groupe de baigneurs
1892–94
Alternate titles: Badende; Group of Bathers; Six baigneurs
Rewald (753): 1892–94; Venturi revised: 1885–88; Venturi (590): 1892–94; Rivière: 1887
Oil on canvas
12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.7 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3816, huile; personnages nus au bord de la rivière, 30 x 40 cm (100 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4363, baigneurs, 30 x 40 cm (200 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 137 and 557, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1880–85; and: 1885
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (BF101)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Leo and Gertrude Stein, Paris (Oct. 28, 1904);
Leo Stein, Settignano (c. 1913)
Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Merion (May 12, 1916);
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia
Published References
Meier-Graefe 1907b
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Paul Cézanne." Volné směry (Prague) 11 (1907), ill. p. 89.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 215, listed.
Salmon 1923
Salmon, André. Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Stock, 1923, pl. 9.
Barnes 1925b
Barnes, Albert C. The Art in Painting. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1925, p. 482, ill. p. 243 ; 1928 , p. 343, ill.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 107, as Badende.
Barnes and de Mazia 1933
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Henri-Matisse. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933, pp. 190, 456.
Rivière 1933
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 121, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 590, ill. vol. II, as Groupe de baigneurs.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 164, p. 201, ill. (analysis pp. 332–38).
Cogniat 1939a
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 69.
Rivière 1942
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 123, ill.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 133, listed p. 168.
De Mazia 1976b
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum, Cont'd." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 7, no. 2 (Autumn 1976), pl. 23.
De Mazia 1977b
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum, Cont'd: Part IV." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 8, no. 2 (Autumn 1977), pl. 117.
Reff 1977b
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 118.
De Mazia 1981–83a
De Mazia, Violette. "Subject and Subject Matter: Part II." Vistas 2, no. 2, pl. 79.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 139.
De Mazia 1984–86
De Mazia, Violette. "Tradition: An Inquiry – A Few Thoughts." Vistas 3, no. 1 (1984–86), pl. 96.
Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 56, 248–49, 256, fig. 121.
Shoemaker and Reff 1989
Shoemaker, Innis, and Theodore Reff. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 119, 226, ill.
Wattenmaker et al 1993
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 105, fig. 4.
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. 753, ill. vol. 2, as Groupe de baigneurs.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 292, no. 117, ill., as Six baigneurs, c. 1890.
Dachy 2011
Dachy, Marc. "L'art moderne, un passion naissante: Une incroyable collection d'avant-garde." Beaux-arts magazine (Paris) hors-serie (November 2, 2011), p. 16, ll. p. 22-23, as Groupe de baigneurs.
Parker 2011
Parker, Robert McD. "Catalogue of the Stein Collections." In The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avent-Garde, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 396, no. 12, ill., as Group of Bathers.
Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 59, pp. 292–97, as Group of Bathers (catalogue notes by C. Riopelle).

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Record last updated October 30, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Groupe de baigneurs, 1892–94 (FWN 953)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=730 (accessed on April 18, 2024).