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 955
Groupe de baigneurs
c.1895
Alternate titles: Figures and Landscape; Group of Bathers; Groupe de sept baigneurs; The Bathers
Rewald (755): c.1895; Venturi revised: 1885–88; Venturi (591): 1892–94
Oil on canvas
8 1/2 x 12 1/8 in. (21.5 x 30.8 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 207, Annotated: 1885
Provenance
Exhibition History
de Zayas Gallery, New York, Paintings by Courbet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Matisse, November 17–December 6, 1919, no. 15, lent by Arensberg.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, May 3–September 15, 1921, no. 12, ill., as The Bathers, lent by Arensberg.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, French Painting from the XVth Century to the Present, June 8–July 8, 1934, no. 69.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 30, ill. lent by Arensberg.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec, February 6–March 26, 1941, no. 5, fig. 47.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Twentieth Century Art from the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, October 20–December 18, 1949, no. 38.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections, July 19–August 21, 1983, no. 19, ill. lent by Philadelphia Museum.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 57, pl. 166.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Au fil de l'eau: Cézanne, June 17–September 15, 2000, no. 12, ill. lent by Philadelphia Museum.
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, The Repeating Image: Multiples in French Painting from David to Matisse, October 7, 2007–January 1, 2008, no. 52, ill., p. 161, fig. 28. Traveled to: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, January 20–May 4, 2008.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Homage to Cézanne: His Influence on the Development of Twentieth Century Painting, November 15, 2008–January 25, 2009, no. 46, ill., as Groupe de baigneurs. Traveled to: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, February 7–April 12, 2009.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia, June 20–September 3, 2012, no number, ill., pp. 215–16, fig.166.
Published References
Parker, De Witt H. The Analysis of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926, p. 70, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 591, ill. vol. II, as Groupe de baigneurs.
Wehle, Harry B. "French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 36, no. 2 (February 1941), p. 34.
Catalogue of the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 20th Century Section. Philadelphia, 1954, no. 33, ill.
Naumann, Francis M. "Walter C. Arensberg: Poet, Patron and Participant in New York Avant-Garde 1915–20." Bulletin of the Philadelphia Museum of Art 26, no. 328 (1980), fig. 6 (shown hanging in the interior of the Arensberg apartment, N.Y, c. 1918).
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 139.
Garb, Tamar. "Visuality and Sexuality in Cézanne's Late Bathers." Oxford Art Journal 19, no. 2 (1996), p. 52, fig. 8.
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. 755, ill. vol. 2, as Groupe de baigneurs.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 292, no. 122, ill., as Groupe de sept baigneurs, 1892-94.
Giles, Laura, and Carol Armstrong, eds. Cézanne in Focus, Watercolors from The Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection. Pricneton, N.J.: Princeton University Art Museum, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 87, fig. 2.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Gemälde: Formate und Themen, Echtheitsfragen." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 241, ill.
Shiff, Richard. "Risible Cézanne." In The Repeating Image: Multiples in French Painting from David to Matisse. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 160, fig. 28, as Group of Bathers, dated c. 1895.
Rishel, Joseph J. "Cézanne, Virgil, Poussin." In Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 172, fig. 166, as Group of Bathers.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Groupe de baigneurs, c.1895 (FWN 955)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=732 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
