Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

Figure compositions:
- figure(s) in landscape or figure composition »
Animals:
- dog / chien »

Provenance

Camille Pissarro, Paris

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris

Auguste Pellerin, Paris;

M. et Mme René Lecomte, Paris;

Private collection;

Pellerin Collection, Sotheby's, New York, Nov. 13, 1997, no. 111, ill.

Private collection

Exhibition History

1936c Paris

Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 66, (dated 1875–78), as La Lutte amoureuse, lent by Lecomte.

1954 Paris

Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 37, pl. XV, lent by private collection, Paris.

1989 Basel

Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 40, pls. 35 and 211.

1995–96 Paris and traveling

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.

2022–23 Chicago and traveling

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

Soffici 1908

Soffici, Ardengo. "Paul Cézanne." Vita d'arte 1, no. 6 (June 1908), p. 330, ill.

Denis 1909–10

Denis, Maurice. "Cézanne." Kunstbladet (1909–10), p. 247, ill.

Denis 1910

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 1913

Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 52, as Bacchanale.

Burger 1917

Burger, Fritz. Einführung in die moderne Kunst. Berlin: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1917, fig. 129.

Burger 1919

Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1919, p. 55.

Fahraeus 1919

Fahraeus, Klas. "Paul Cézanne." Ord och Bild 4 (1919), p. 405, ill., as Kampen.

Zeisho 1921

Zeisho, Atzouji. Paul Cézanne. Tokyo: Rakuyodo, Taisho, 1921, fig. 33.

Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 1921a

"Le courrier de la presse: Cézanne." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 2, no. 2 (January 15, 1921), ill. p. 51, as Bacchanale.

Gasquet 1921b

Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 99, pl. p. 98, as Bacchanale.

Glaser 1922

Glaser, Curt. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1922, pl. 10, as Liebeskampf, 1885.

Meier-Graefe 1922

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 193.

Burger 1923

Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1923, pl. 55.

Meier-Graefe 1923

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper, 1923, ill. p. 51.

Rivière 1923

Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 205, listed.

Gasquet 1926

Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 163, pl. [30] hors texte, as Bacchanale.

Glaser 1927

Glaser, Curt. "Das Cézanne-Buch Joachim Gasquets I [and] II." Kunst und Künstler 25, nos. 8 and 9 (1927), ill. p. 329.

D'Ors 1930

Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, 1930, pl. 38.

Di San Lazzaro 1936

Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 53.

Raynal 1936

Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. XCIX p. 134.

Tourrette 1936

Tourrette, Gilles de la. "Paul Cézanne." Art et les Artistes 32 (July 1936), p. 331, ill., as La Lutte amoureuse, dated circa 1875–78.

D'Ors 1936a

Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. New York: E. Weyhe, 1936, pl. 53.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 379, ill. vol. II, as La Lutte d'amour.

Barnes and de Mazia 1939

Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 49, p. 182, ill.

Dorival 1948

Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. IV, listed p. 176.

Jedlicka 1948

Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 16, as La Lutte d'amour, I.

Guerry 1950

Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Flammarion, 1950, pp. 56–58.

Jourdain 1950

Jourdain, Francis. Cézanne. Paris: Braun, 1950, ill.

Raynal 1954

Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1954, p. 19, ill.

Beucken 1955

Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 175.

Badt 1956

Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, p. 85 (quoted above; author's translation).

Gowing 1956

Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), pp. 188–89.

Badt 1965

Badt, Kurt. The Art of Cézanne. Translated by Sheila Ann Ogilvie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965, p. 112.

Schapiro 1968

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).

Erpel 1973

Erpel, Fritz. Paul Cézanne. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1973, no. 5.

Schapiro 1973

Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 8.

Dorival 1974

Dorival, Bernard. "Les omissions d'Archipenko et de Lipschitz." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français (1974), fig. 65.

Brion-Guerry 1977

"The Elusive Goal." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 75, ill.

Venturi 1978

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 124, ill.

Ponente 1981

Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Lux: pl. 6.

Ballas 1983

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 1984

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 and Takumi 1986

Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 86, ill. b/w.

Teboul 1988

Teboul, Jacques. Les Victoires de Cézanne. Paris: Adam Biro, 1988, no. 48, ill.

Geelhaar 1989

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 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. 455, ill. vol. 2, as La Lutte d'amour, I.

Ballas 2002

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 2005c

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 2008

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 2020

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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Record last updated April 26, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

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 26, 2024).