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 953
Groupe de baigneurs
1892–94
Alternate titles: Badende; Group of Bathers; Six baigneurs
Rewald (753): 1892–94; Venturi revised: 1885–88; Venturi (590): 1892–94; Rivière: 1887
Oil on canvas
12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.7 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3816, huile; personnages nus au bord de la rivière, 30 x 40 cm (100 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4363, baigneurs, 30 x 40 cm (200 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 137 and 557, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1880–85; and: 1885
Provenance
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 215, listed.
Barnes, Albert C. The Art in Painting. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1925, p. 482, ill. p. 243 ; 1928 , p. 343, ill.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 107, as Badende.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Henri-Matisse. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933, pp. 190, 456.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 121, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 590, ill. vol. II, as Groupe de baigneurs.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 164, p. 201, ill. (analysis pp. 332–38).
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 123, ill.
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum, Cont'd." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 7, no. 2 (Autumn 1976), pl. 23.
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum, Cont'd: Part IV." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 8, no. 2 (Autumn 1977), pl. 117.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 118.
De Mazia, Violette. "Subject and Subject Matter: Part II." Vistas 2, no. 2, pl. 79.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 139.
De Mazia, Violette. "Tradition: An Inquiry – A Few Thoughts." Vistas 3, no. 1 (1984–86), pl. 96.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 56, 248–49, 256, fig. 121.
Shoemaker, Innis, and Theodore Reff. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 119, 226, ill.
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 105, fig. 4.
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. 753, ill. vol. 2, as Groupe de baigneurs.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 292, no. 117, ill., as Six baigneurs, c. 1890.
Dachy, Marc. "L'art moderne, un passion naissante: Une incroyable collection d'avant-garde." Beaux-arts magazine (Paris) hors-serie (November 2, 2011), p. 16, ll. p. 22-23, as Groupe de baigneurs.
Parker, Robert McD. "Catalogue of the Stein Collections." In The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avent-Garde, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 396, no. 12, ill., as Group of Bathers.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 59, pp. 292–97, as Group of Bathers (catalogue notes by C. Riopelle).
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Record last updated October 30, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Groupe de baigneurs, 1892–94 (FWN 953)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=730 (accessed on December 10, 2024).
