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 940
Cinq baigneuses
1877–78
Alternate titles: Cinco bañistas; Five Bathers; Nus
Rewald (365): 1877–78; Venturi revised: 1878–79; Venturi (385): 1879–82; Cooper: c.1877,c.1877; Gowing: 1879 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
17 7/8 x 21 5/8 in. (45.5 x 55 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 27, lent by Lecomte.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 44, lent by private collection, Paris.
Lefevre Gallery, London, XIX and XX Century French Paintings, March–April 1957, no. 8, ill.
Marlborough Galleries, London, XIX and XX Century European Masters, June–July 1957, no. 8, ill. p. 22, as Cinq baigneuses, c. 1879-82 (for sale).
Musée du Louvre, Pavillon de Flore, Paris, Donations Picasso: la collection personnelle de Picasso, 1978, no. 4, ill. in color, as Cinq baigneuses, catalogue entry: Anne Distel.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 38, pl. 115.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 50, ill. shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Picasso und seine Sammlung, April 30–August 16, 1998, no. 11, ill., as Cinq baigneuses.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 95, ill., as Cinq baigneuses. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain, Picasso y su colección, December 19, 2007–March 30, 2008, no no., p.83, ill., as Cinco bañistas, 1877-1878.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 2, p. 65, as Cinq baigneuses.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Picasso, Cézanne, May 25–September 27, 2009, no. 37, ill., as Cinq baigneuses.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 91, ill. lent by Musée Picasso, Paris.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 105, ill. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Ruckstull, Fred Wellington. Bolshevism in Art and Its Propagandists. New York: Veritas, 1924, p. 36, fig. 13.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 385, ill. vol. II, as Cinq baigneuses.
Cooper, Douglas. "Two Cézanne Exhibitions-I' and 'II." The Burlington Magazine 96, no. 620 and no. 621 (November and December 1954), fig. 17 p. [347] (no. 620), as Cinq baigneuses.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 45.
Besnard-Bernadac, Marie-Laure et al. "Collection personnelle de Picasso." In Musée Picasso: catalogue sommaire des collections, I. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1985, p. 234, no. T. 7, ill., as Cinq baigneuses.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 98, ill. in color.
Teboul, Jacques. Les Victoires de Cézanne. Paris: Adam Biro, 1988, no. 38, ill. (in reverse).
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 99, ill.
Bozal, Valeriano. "Paul Cézanne: la mirada es le leguaje." La Balsa de la Medusa (Madrid) 36 (1995), p. 92, ill. p. 91, as Cinco bañistas.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 180.
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. 365, ill. vol. 2, as Cinq baigneuses.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. pp. 60 and 252 (detail), p. 277, no. 17, ill., as Cinq baigneuses, 1880-82.
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, fig. 51, ill.
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. 244, pl. 70, as Five Bathers.
Shiff, Richard. "Lucky Cézanne (Cézanne Tychique)." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 65, pl. 2, as Five Bathers.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 172, pl. 67.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 56, fig. 64.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 171, fig. 117.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 247, ill., as Nus.
Notes
Rewald (1996, pp. 242–43) pointed out the "stark blue tree at the left, whose color is echoed by the towel close to the crouching figure at the right, [which] seems to indicate that Cézanne, like his friends Pissarro, Monet, and Renoir, occasionally showed a predilection for blue tonalities during the late 1870z and early 1880s," described as "indigomania" and "hairdresser's blue" by the novelist J.K. Huysmans.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Cinq baigneuses, 1877–78 (FWN 940)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=361 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
