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 936
Cinq baigneurs
1880–82
Alternate titles: Baigneurs; Les cinq baigneurs
Rewald (449): 1880–82; Venturi revised: 1885–88; Venturi (390): 1879–82; Cooper: c.1880–82; Gowing: 1888–89 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 28 11/16 in. (60 x 73 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3656, huile; cinq personnages nus dans des positions diverses au sortir du bain, 61 x 74 cm (200 frs)
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 29, as Baigneurs, lent by Vollard.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 45, pl. XIX, lent by private collection, Paris.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 32, pl. 147.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Hommage à Cézanne, November 30, 2006–February 11, 2007, no no., as Les cinq baigneurs, c. 1880/82, lent by Private collection.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 390, ill. vol. II, as Baigneurs.
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 190.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 118.
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. 449, ill. vol. 2, as Cinq baigneurs.
Bach, Friedrich Teja. "The Stake in the Pictorial Flesh: Disruptions in Cézanne's Oeuvre." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 71, fig. 15, as Cinq baigneurs.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 291, no. 114, ill., as Cinq baigneurs, c. 1880.
Locke, Nancy. "Cézanne's 'Bathers', Watteau, and the Idea of Fantasy." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 77, no. 1/2 (2003), p. 21, fig. 4.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Sammler. Von Zola bis Annenberg." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 173, ill.
Bardazzi, Francesca, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Translated by John Venerella. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 262, fig. 20, as Cinq baigneurs.
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Record last updated January 31, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Cinq baigneurs, 1880–82 (FWN 936)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=440 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
