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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)
Catalogue entry
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
Galerie Barbazanges, Paris
Louise and Walter Arensberg, New York and Hollywood (on temporary loan to the museum of the University of California);
Philadelphia Museum of Art (1950)
Exhibition History
1919 New York
de Zayas Gallery, New York, Paintings by Courbet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Matisse, November 17–December 6, 1919, no. 15, lent by Arensberg.1921c New York
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.1934 San Francisco
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, French Painting from the XVth Century to the Present, June 8–July 8, 1934, no. 69.1937 San Francisco
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.1941b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec, February 6–March 26, 1941, no. 5, fig. 47.1949 Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Twentieth Century Art from the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, October 20–December 18, 1949, no. 38.1983 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections, July 19–August 21, 1983, no. 19, ill. lent by Philadelphia Museum.1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 57, pl. 166.2000 Aix-en-Provence
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Au fil de l'eau: Cézanne, June 17–September 15, 2000, no. 12, ill. lent by Philadelphia Museum.2007–08 Baltimore and traveling
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, 2008.2008–09 Yokohama and traveling
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, 2009.2012 Philadelphia
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
Wedderkop 1922a
Wedderkop, Hans von. "Paul Cézanne." Der Cicerone 14, no. 16 (1922), ill. p. 685.Wedderkop 1922b
Wedderkop, Harro von. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1922, ill.Parker 1926
Parker, De Witt H. The Analysis of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926, p. 70, ill.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 591, ill. vol. II, as Groupe de baigneurs.Wehle 1941
Wehle, Harry B. "French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 36, no. 2 (February 1941), p. 34.Philadelphia Museum of Art 1954a
Catalogue of the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 20th Century Section. Philadelphia, 1954, no. 33, ill.Ikegami 1969
Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, pl. 66.Naumann 1980
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 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 139.Garb 1996
Garb, Tamar. "Visuality and Sexuality in Cézanne's Late Bathers." Oxford Art Journal 19, no. 2 (1996), p. 52, fig. 8.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. 755, ill. vol. 2, as Groupe de baigneurs.Ballas 2002
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 and Armstrong 2002
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 2005e
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 2007
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 2012c
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.Related work
Record last updated October 5, 2014. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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 26, 2024).
