Catalogue entry

FWN 2041

Groupe de baigneurs

c.1900

Alternate titles: Baigneurs; Group of Bathers

Rewald (W494); Venturi revised: 1885–88; Reff: c.1890–1900

Watercolor on paper

7 1/4 x 10 7/16 in. (18.5 x 26.5 cm)

Vollard W stockbook: no. 1622, baigneurs; aquarelle, 19 x 28 (?) (2,000)

Vollard archives: photo no. 198

Private collection

Keywords

Figure compositions
Bathers and Nudes:
- male bathers / biagneurs »

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Paul Rosenberg, Paris

Rosenberg & Helft, London

Mrs. Ruth McC. Maitland, Los Angeles;

Walter McC. Maitland, Los Angeles

Mr. and Mrs. Taft B. Schreiber, Beverly Hills;

Sotheby's, New York, May 8, 2007, no. 15, ill.

Private collection

Exhibition History

1959b Los Angeles

U.C.L.A Art Galleries, Los Angeles, The Ruth McC. Maitland Collection, October–November 11, 1959.

1963f New York

Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 49, pl. XXXIX, as Baigneurs, 1895-1900, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Taft Schreiber, Beverly Hills.

1971 Washington, D.C. and traveling

Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 52, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.

1989 Basel

Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 86, pl. 164, lent by Collection Elizabeth A. Greenberg, Los Angeles.

1991 Los Angeles

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Monet to Matisse: French Art in Southern California Collections, June 9–August 11, 1991.

Published References

Reff 1963a

Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne: The Logical Mystery." Art News 62, no. 2 (April 1963), p. 31, ill.

Rubin 1977a

Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 204.

Rewald 1983a

Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 494, ill.

Ballas 2002

Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 294, no. 143, ill. c. 1900.

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, p. 302, fig.2, as Group of Bathers.

Related work

Record last updated October 19, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Groupe de baigneurs, c.1900 (FWN 2041)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1476 (accessed on April 23, 2024).