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 657
La Lutte d'amour
c.1880
Alternate titles: Der Liebeskampf; La lucha del amor; La Lutte; La lutte amoureuse; La Lutte d'amour, II; Liebesfest; Liebeskampf; Lutte d'amour; Lutteurs amoureux; Struggling Lovers; The Battle of Love
Rewald (456): c.1880; Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi (380): 1875–76; Vollard: 1885
Oil on canvas
14 15/16 x 18 1/8 in. (38 x 46 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 130, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1885
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunstverein, Ruhmeshalle, Barmen, Germany, Sammlung Reber: Ausstellung alter und neuerer Meister, Autumn 1912, no. 23, tentative identification.
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, Sammlung G.F. Reber, mid-May–mid-June, 1913, no. 14, as Lutteurs amoureux.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XV. Jahrgang, 1912–1913, Dritte Ausstellung, Sammlung Reber, Beginning January - January 20, 1913, no. 24, as Lutteurs amoureux.
Kunstverein, Alte Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, Europäische Kunst der Gegenwart, Zentenarausstellung des Kunstvereins, July 31–October 2, 1927, no. 175, as Lutteurs amoureux, lent by Reber, Lugano.
Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, Ausstellung Französischer Meister des XIX Jahrhunderts aus Frankfurter Privatbesitz ergänzt durch sechs Gemälde von Cézanne als Leihgabe der Sammlung G.F. Reber, Lugano, October 16–November 16, 1927, no. 5, as Liebeskampf.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, French Paintings, February 21–March 15, 1933, no. 8.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November 10–December 10, 1934, no. 20, ill., (dated 1885), as Lutte d'amour, lent by Harriman Gallery.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne, Derain and Others, February 17–March 14, 1936, no. 2, as La Lutte d'amour.
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Cézanne and Gauguin, November 1–December 13, 1936, no. 18, ill., as La Lutte d'amour, lent by Marie Harriman Gallery, New York.
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Five Major Paintings by Paul Cézanne, December 16, 1936–January 15, 1937.
San Diego Museum, San Diego, 1937.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 6, ill. lent by Harriman Gallery.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 3, as La Lutte d'amour, lent by Harriman.
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, The Little Show, 1945.
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Paintings by Paul Cézanne, February 5–March 9, 1947, no. 2, ill. lent by Harriman.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 12, ill. lent by Harriman.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 19, ill. lent by Harriman. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Orangerie, Paris, Monticelli et le baroque provençal, June 19–September 15, 1953, no. 18, pl. XXXI, as La Lutte d'amour, c. 1875-1876, lent by M. and Mme W. Averell Harriman, New York.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 15, ill. lent by Harriman.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 22, ill. lent by Harriman.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1958, no. 19, as La Lutte d'amour, lent by Governor and Mrs. W. Averell Harriman.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 12, ill. lent by Harriman.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Marie and Averell Harriman Collection, April 15–May 14, 1961, ill., p. 12.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Cézanne and Structure in Modern Painting, June–August 1963.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 28. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, Fifty Years of French Painting: The Emergence of Modern Art, February 1–March 30, 1980, no. 15.
Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Small Paintings from Famous Collections, April 4–June 7, 1981.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., The Pastoral Landscape: The Modern Vision, November 6, 1988–January 22, 1989, no. 116, fig. 213.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 41, pl. 36.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 34, fig. 41, pp. 40, 339, as La Lutte d'amour, II. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 15, ill. p. 174, as La Lutte d'amour, II, lent by NGA, Washington, D.C.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 52, ill., p. 107, as La Lutte d'amour, lent by National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art, October 18, 2015–January 16, 2016, no. 20, ill. Traveled to: National Gallery, London, February 17–May 22, 2016.
Published References
"A Private Collection in Germany That Contains Fourteen Examples of the Art of Paul Cezanne, a Great Modern, Who Already Is Placed with the Old Masters, in Darmstadt." New York Times, July 6, 1913, p. 15, as Struggling Lovers.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. opposite p. 160.
Jaloux, Edmond. "Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 285, as La Lutte.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 194.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne: His Life and Art. Translated by Harold L. van Doren. New York: Nicholas Brown, 1923, ill. opp. p. 136.
Grohmann, Will. "Das neue Europa auf der Zentenarausstellung in Hamburg." Der Cicerone 19, no. 16 (1927), p. 505, ill., as Der Liebeskampf.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 91, as Liebesfest.
Waldmann, Emil. Die Kunst des Realismus und des Impressionismus. Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, 1927, p. 501, ill.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LXII.
Omnibus, Almanach auf das Jahr 1932. Berlin and Düsseldorf: Galerie Flechtheim, 1932, ill p. [154], as Liebeskampf, watercolor [sic], Lausanne, Reber collection.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 380, ill. vol. II, as La Lutte d'amour.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 56.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 17, ill.
Laporte, Paul M. "Cézanne and Whitman." Magazine of Art 37, no. 6 (October 1944), p. 226, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 19, as La lutte amoureuse, 1875-78.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne and Poussin." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 23, nos. 1–2 (January–June 1960), p. 172, as Lutte d'amour.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "A Sheet of Cézanne's Copies after Delacroix." Master Drawings, vol. 5, no. 2 (Summer 1967), p. 183, fig. 1, as La Lutte d'amour.
Arnason, H. Harvard. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968, p. 44, ill.
Schapiro, Meyer. "The Apples of Cézanne: An Essay on the Meaning of Still-Life." Art News Annual 34 (1968), p. 39, pl. 12.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 8, with comments.
Sutton, Denys. "The Paradoxes of Cézanne." Apollo (London) 100, no. 150 (August 1974), fig. 10 p. 103.
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 2587, p. 63 ill., as The Battle of Love.
Schapiro, Meyer. "The Apples of Cézanne: An Essay on the Meaning of Still-Life." In Modern Art: Selected Papers. New York: George Braziller, 1978, fig. 12 and pl. II.
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980, p. 427, ill.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Cézanne's Bathers: Form and Content." Arts Magazine 54, no. 9 (May 1980), p. 117, fig. 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.
Von der Heydt Museum. Der westdeutsche Impuls 1900–1914, Kunst und Umweltgestaltung im Industriegebiet, Stadtenwicklung, Sammlungen, Austellungen. Günter Aust, ed.. Wuppertal: Von der Heydt Museum, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 147, as Liebeskampf, ex-Reber collection.
House, John. Impressionist Masterpieces: National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Hugh Lauther Levin, 1985, fig. 16.
Bessonova, Marina, and William Williams. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Hermitage, Leningrad, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Park Lane, 1986, p. 157, ill.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 49, ill.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 109–10, pl. XVIII.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 219, fig. 106.
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne, tradition et modernité." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 84, fig. 32.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 98, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 204, fig. 1.
"Paul Cézanne: el ermitaño tentado." Lettra inernacional (Madrid) 43 (March-April 1196), ill. p. 65, as La lucha del amor, 1880.
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. 456, ill. vol. 2, as La Lutte d'amour, II.
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, listed p. 387.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. p. 14, p. 311, no. 275, ill., as La Lutte d'amour, II, c. 1880.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 199, fig. 5.11, as La Lutte d'amour, II.
Locke, Nancy. "Cézanne's 'Bathers', Watteau, and the Idea of Fantasy." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 77, no. 1/2 (2003), p. 25, fig. 10.
Jensen, Robert. "Vollard and Cézanne: An Anatomy of a Relationship." In Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 40, fig. 41, as The Battle of Love.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 148; vol. 2, p. 111, as La Lutte d'amour, II.
Virassamynaïken, Ludmilla. "La lutte d'amour." In Picasso, Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 134–35, fig. 1, as La Lutte d'amour, II.
Dombrowski, André. "Cézanne peignant le meurtre." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 107, ill., as La Lutte d'amour, II.
Rishel, Joseph J. "Arcadia 1900." In Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 63, fig. 67, as Lutte d'amour.
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, pl. 16.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Sammlung Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Barmen: Anfang Januar bis 20. Januar 1913." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1912-1914 vol. 6, "Eine neue Klassik". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 132, ill.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 290, ill.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 303, fig. 3, as The Battle of Love.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Lutte d'amour, c.1880 (FWN 657)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=447 (accessed on December 13, 2024).
