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 656
La Lutte d'amour
1879–80
Alternate titles: Bacchanale; Badende; Kampen; La Lutte amoureuse; La lutte d'amour or Nus; La Lutte d'amour, I; Liebeskampf; The Satyrs
Rewald (455): 1879–80; Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi (379): 1875–76; Rivière: 1877; Vollard: 1877–78; Gowing: (Burlington) 1879
Oil on canvas
16 1/2 x 21 5/8 in. (42 x 55 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 399, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1878
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 66, (dated 1875–78), as La Lutte amoureuse, lent by Lecomte.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 37, pl. XV, lent by private collection, Paris.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 40, pls. 35 and 211.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 64, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 15, ill. Private collection, United States. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Denis, Maurice. "Cézanne I' and 'Cézanne II." Translated by Roger Fry. The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 16, no. 82 and no. 83 (January and Fabruary 1910), pl. III p. [215] (no. 82), as The Satyrs.
Burger, Fritz. Einführung in die moderne Kunst. Berlin: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1917, fig. 129.
"Le courrier de la presse: Cézanne." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 2, no. 2 (January 15, 1921), ill. p. 51, as Bacchanale.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 99, pl. p. 98, as Bacchanale.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 193.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 205, listed.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 163, pl. [30] hors texte, as Bacchanale.
Glaser, Curt. "Das Cézanne-Buch Joachim Gasquets I [and] II." Kunst und Künstler 25, nos. 8 and 9 (1927), ill. p. 329.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 53.
Tourrette, Gilles de la. "Paul Cézanne." Art et les Artistes 32 (July 1936), p. 331, ill., as La Lutte amoureuse, dated circa 1875–78.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 379, ill. vol. II, as La Lutte d'amour.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 49, p. 182, ill.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 16, as La Lutte d'amour, I.
Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Flammarion, 1950, pp. 56–58.
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, p. 85 (quoted above; author's translation).
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), pp. 188–89.
Badt, Kurt. The Art of Cézanne. Translated by Sheila Ann Ogilvie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965, p. 112.
Schapiro, Meyer. "The Apples of Cézanne: An Essay on the Meaning of Still-Life." Art News Annual 34 (1968), p. 39 (comments concerning no. 456 quoted above).
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 8.
Dorival, Bernard. "Les omissions d'Archipenko et de Lipschitz." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français (1974), fig. 65.
"The Elusive Goal." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 75, ill.
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Lux: pl. 6.
Ballas, Guila. "Unknown Sources for Cézanne's Women Bathers." In Norms and Variations in Art: Essays in Honor of Moshe Barasch. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1983, p. 185.
Ely, Bruno. "Cézanne, L'Ecole de dessin et le Musée d'Aix." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 190.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 86, ill. b/w.
Geelhaar, Christian. "The Painters Who Had the Right Eyes: On the reception of Cézanne's Bathers." In Paul Cézanne: The Bathers. Basel: Kunstmuseum Basel, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, p. 281, fig. 211, as La Lutte d'amour.
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. 455, ill. vol. 2, as La Lutte d'amour, I.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 311, no. 274, ill., as La Lutte d'amour, I, 1875-76.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Motive: Versuch einer neuen Ordnung." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 207, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 149; vol. 2, p. 111, as La Lutte d'amour, I.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 251, ill., as La lutte d'amour or Nus.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Lutte d'amour, 1879–80 (FWN 656)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=446 (accessed on April 27, 2024).
