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Catalogue entry

FWN 948
Baigneurs
c.1890
Alternate titles: Les Baigneurs; Les Baigneuses; Six baigneurs; The Bathers
Rewald (747): c.1890; Venturi revised: 1885–88; Venturi (541): 1883–87
Oil on canvas
15 3/8 x 20 7/8 in. (39 x 53 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3838, huile; personnages nus près d'une rivière, 38 x 53 cm (100 frs)
Vollard X stockbook: no. 5239, baigneurs
Vollard archives: photo no. 113, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1885
Private collection

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Barmen (July 1912)
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
S. Sevadjian, Paris;
S... S... [Sevadjian], Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Mar. 22, 1920, no. 5, ill.
Jørgen Breder Stang, Oslo
Alfred Gold, Berlin
Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill, London
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Robert de Rothschild, Paris;
Eric de Rothschild, Paris;
Private collection
Exhibition History
1917b Paris
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Art français du XIXe siècle au profit de l'Association Générale des mutilés de la guerre, June 25–July 13, 1917, no. 4, as Les baigneurs, lent by Sevadjian.
1917 Zurich
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 37, as Baigneurs, lent by S[evadjian].
1919 Paris
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, L'art français au XIXe siècle, 1919.
1929 New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 12, ill., as The Bathers, lent by Churchill.
1932 London
Royal Academy of Arts, London, French Art, January 4–March 12, 1932, no. 550, as Les Baigneuses, lent by Lord Spencer, London; Commemorative Catalogue: no. 289.
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 81, as Les Baigneurs, lent by Churchill.
1936f Paris
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Le grand siècle, June 15–July 11, 1936, no. 13, ill.
1936d London
New Burlington Galleries, London, Exhibition of Masters of French 19th Century Painting, October 1–31, 1936, no. 88, as Baigneurs, lent by Churchill.
1939a Paris
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Exposition Cézanne (1839-1906), organisée à l'occasion de son centenaire au profit de l’œuvre de l'allaitement maternel, February 21–April 1, 1939, no. 13, ill., as Les Baigneurs, 1885, lent by R. de Rothschild.
1952c Paris
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, Cinquante ans de peinture française dans les collections particulières de Cézanne à Matisse, March–April 1952, no. 29, pl. 3, as Les Baigneurs, c. 1888-1892.
1956 Aix-en-Provence
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 26, ill. lent by Mlle Cécile de Rothschild.
2014a Madrid
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 16, ill.
2017 Martigny
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 99, ill. lent by Private collection.
Published References
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 45.
Bernard 1925
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 68.
Bernard 1926a
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 18.
Jamot 1929
Jamot, Paul. "L'art français en Norvège." La Renaissance (Paris; New York), vol. 12, no. 2 (February 1929), p. 96, ill. p. 78, as Baigneurs, J.-B. Stang collection.
Galerie Gold 1930
French impressionists, old masters : 35 paintings selected from exhibitions at Dr. Alfred Gold's Gallery. Berlin: Galerie Gold, 1930, p. [19], ill., as The Bathers, c. 1890.
Gasquet 1930b
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Berlin: B. Cassirer, 1930, ill. opp. p. 60.
Di San Lazzaro 1936
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 51.
D'Ors 1936a
Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. New York: E. Weyhe, 1936, pl. 51.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 541, ill. vol. II, as Les baigneurs.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 100, listed.
Jaloux 1939
Jaloux, Edmond. "Cézanne." Marianne: grand hebdomadaire politique et littéraire illustré (Paris) (February 22, 1939), ill. p. 12, as Les Baigneurs, illustration erroneously as catalogue n° 18.
Auzas 1946
Auzas, Pierre. Peintures de Cézanne. Paris: Editions du Chêne, 1946, pl. X (in color), as Baigneurs, dated 1883–87.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 131, listed p. 168.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 39, fig. 46.
Reff 1977b
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 118.
Shoemaker and Reff 1989
Shoemaker, Innis, and Theodore Reff. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 134, 224, ill.
Kostenevich 1995
Kostenevich, Albert. Hidden Treasures Revealed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 200, fig. 1.
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. 747, ill. vol. 2, as Baigneurs.
Kropmanns and Fleckner 2001
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. 388.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. pp. 158 and 162 (detail), p. 291, no. 116, ill., as Six baigneurs, c. 1883.

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Record last updated July 15, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneurs, c.1890 (FWN 948)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=725 (accessed on April 25, 2024).