The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
Catalogue entry
FWN 3007-45b
Baigneurs
c.1888
Alternate titles: Badende; Badende Männer I; Baigneuses; Bathers; The Bathers
Rewald: (W132); Venturi revised: 1885–88; Venturi: (902) 1882–94; Rivière: c.1888; Vollard: 1882; Ratcliffe: probably 1888–89
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper, p. XLV verso removed from the BS III sketchbook
4 15/16 x 8 3/16 in. (12.6 x 20.8 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin, Cézanne, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen; Bronzen von Edgar Degas, May 19–June 16, 1927, no. 3, ill., as Badende Männer I, lent by Jean Renoir, Paris.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July, 1939, no. 54, as Bathers, c. 1882-85, lent by Wildenstein.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Private Collectors, 1963, no cat. issued.
Tate Gallery, London, The Annenberg Collection, September 2–October 8, 1969, no. 6, ill.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, May 21–September 17, 1989, n.n, pp. 76–77, ill, as The Bathers. Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, May 6–August 5, 1990. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, August 16–November 15, 1990. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 4–October 13, 1991.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolors from the Metropolitan Museum's Collection, November 18, 2014–March 15, 2015.
Published References
Vollard, Ambroise. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Pierre Auguste Renoir. Paris: Vollard, 1919, p. 114.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 217, listed as Baigneuses.
"Berliner Ausstellungen." Der Cicerone 19, no. 9 (1927), p. 288, ill. as Badende.
Galerie Flechtheim. Omnibus (1931), p. 169, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 902, ill. vol. II as Baigneurs.
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 206 as Baigneuses.
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 20.
Neumeyer, Alfred. Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden. Stuttgart: Philip Reclam, 1959, fig. 4.
White, Barbara Ehrlich. "The Bathers of 1887 and Renoir's Anti-Impressionism." Art Bulletin 55, no. 1 (March 1973), p. 119n47.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 132, ill.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 294, no. 142, ill. c. 1888.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection - New Edition. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, no. 28, ill. p. 149.
Shone, Richard. "Acquisitions (2000–10) of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century French art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (December 2010), p. 843, fig. XIV.
Haldemann, Anita (ed.). The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, no. 211, ill. p. 266, catalogued but not shown.
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Basel III, 1878–1881 and 1897–1900 (3007)
This sketchbook probably contained fifty-three or fifty-four sheets. The pages are numbered on the "a" side in Roman numerals at bottom right. Some sheets were sold separately in the 1930s and have been identified based on stains from an oil-binding agent or rust spots left when the sketchbook was unbound. Sketchbook details »
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Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Baigneurs, c.1888 (FWN 3007-45b)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1109 (accessed on September 22, 2020).
