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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)
Catalogue entry
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
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (?)
Egisto Fabbri, Florence and Paris (?)
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris;
M. et Mme René Lecomte, Paris;
Private collection
Pellerin Collection, Christie's, London, Nov. 30, 1992, no. 13, ill.
Private collection
Exhibition History
1904b Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 29, as Baigneurs, lent by Vollard.1954 Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 45, pl. XIX, lent by private collection, Paris.1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 32, pl. 147.2006–07 Zurich
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
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 45.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 390, ill. vol. II, as Baigneurs.Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, pl. 27.Gowing 1956
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 190.Reff 1977b
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 118.Wadley 1989
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1989, p. 63, ill. in b/w.Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 106, fig. 88.Rewald 1996
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 2000
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 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 291, no. 114, ill., as Cinq baigneurs, c. 1880.Locke 2003
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 2005b
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 2007b
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.Related work
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).
