The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
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Christian Baur, Basel
FWN 973
Groupe de sept baigneurs
c.1900
Alternate titles: Badende; Grupo de siete bañistas; Nus sept baignerurs; Sept baigneurs; Sept Nus; Siete bañistas
Rewald (860): c.1900; Venturi revised: 1885–88; Venturi (387): 1879–82; Reff: 1896–97 or slightly later
Oil on canvas
14 5/8 x 17 11/16 in. (37 x 45 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 4106, huile; homme[s] nu[s] esquisse, 38 x 46 cm
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3795, Personnages nus sur fond bleu, 38 x 46 cm (50 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 43, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1888
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 1, as Sept Nus, for sale.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Nus, May 17–28, 1910, no. 9, as Sept Nus, tentative identification.
Kunstverein Barmen, Barmen, Germany, Sammlung Werner Dücker, December 1912.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 23, as Badende, c. 1880, lent by Private collection, Mannheim.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Manet, Degas, Monet, Cézanne, Bonnard: Oeuvres tardives, June–September 1977, no. 13, ill., as Sept baigneurs.
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. 36, pl. 202. 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. 101, ill.
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982, no. 27, ill. c. 1900. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 12–August 31, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne).
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 27, ill.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 22, ill., as Sept baigneurs, lent by Private collection.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 37, ill. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Collección Beyeler, May 24–June 24, 1989, no no., pp. 32–33, ill., as Siete bañistas.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 65, pl. 162.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 79, ill.
Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Wege der Moderne: die Sammlung Beyeler, April 30–August 1, 1993, no. 10, ill.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Magic Blue, December 1993–March 1994, no. 8, ill.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century: The Beyeler Collection, December 7, 1996–March 2, 1997, no. 4, ill.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 31, ill., p. 100, as Groupe de sept baigneurs.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Forma. El ideal clásico en el arte moderno, October 9, 2001–January 13, 2002, no. 26, p. 204, ill. p. 86, as Siete bañistas, c. 1900, lent by Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Hommage à Paul Cézanne, October 21, 2006–January 7, 2007.
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 51, ill. p. 189, as Groupe de sept baigneurs, lent by Beyeler Collection.
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Cézanne – Picasso – Giacometti: Meisterwerke der Fondation Beyeler, September 17, 2010–January 17, 2011, no. 3, ill., as Sept baigneurs.
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi, October 20, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 30, ill., as Groupe de sept baigneurs, lent by Fondation Beyeler, not shown, replaced by FWN 853.
Musée Granet and Musée des Beaux-Arts, palais Longchamp, Aix-en Provence and Marseille, France, Le Grand Atelier du Midi: de Cézanne à Matisse [Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence]; de Van Gogh à Bonnard [Musée des Beaux-Arts, palais Longchamp, Marseille], June 13–October 13, 2013, no. 113, ill., p. 181.
Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Impressionismus - Expressionismus. Kunstwende, May 22–September 20, 2015, no. 3, ill.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 95, ill.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 190.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 230.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 108, as Badende, c. 1890 (Photo: Thannhauser).
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XCI.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 387, ill. vol. II, as Sept baigneurs.
Waldfogel, Melvin. "Caillebotte, Vollard and Cézanne's 'Baigneurs au repos.'" Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 65, periode 6 (February 1965), p. 114 and p. 120 note 4.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 16, ill.
Druick, Douglas. "Cézanne's Lithographs." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 123, fig. 2.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 119, fig. 12.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 48.
"Cézanne, una exposición excepcional." Información Cultural (Madrid), no. 10 (March 1984), ill. cover, as Grupo de siete bañistas.
Von der Heydt Museum. Der westdeutsche Impuls 1900–1914, Kunst und Umweltgestaltung im Industriegebiet, Stadtenwicklung, Sammlungen, Austellungen. Günter Aust, ed.. Wuppertal: Von der Heydt Museum, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, p. 147, ill. erroneously illustrates work as ex-Reber collection.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 79, pl. 37.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 34, ill.
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, pp. 54-5.
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. 860, ill. vol. 2, as Groupe de sept baigneurs.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. pp. 180 and 205, 250 (details), p. 292, no. 119, ill., as Sept baigneurs, c. 1900.
Baumann, Felix. "Un pittore per i pittori." In Cezanne: Il padre dei moderni. Milan: Mozzatta, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 47.
Breidbach, Angela. Anschauungsraum bei Cézanne. Cézanne und Helmholtz. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2003, p. 127, ill.
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, pl. 12.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Cézannes in Deutschland." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 149, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 303; vol. 2, p. 207, as Groupe de sept baigneurs.
Obenauf, Maria. Für die Nation gesichert?
Das "Verzeichnis der national wertvollen Kunstwerke": Entstehung, Etablierung und Instrumentalisierung 1919-1945. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2016, pl. XI, ill. p. 351.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 236, ill., as Nus sept baignerurs, installation photograph from 1910 exhibition, p.83.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Groupe de sept baigneurs, c.1900 (FWN 973)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=835 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
