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)
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FWN 962
Baigneurs
1898–1900
Alternate titles: Bathers; Les Baigneurs
Rewald (861): 1898–1900; Venturi revised: 1885–88; Venturi (724): c.1895; Reff: early 1900s (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
10 5/8 x 18 5/16 in. (27 x 46.4 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3817, huile; personnages nus se livrant au jeu de la lutte, 27 x 46 cm (25 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4364, baigneurs, 27 x 46 cm (150 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 191, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1885
Provenance
Exhibition History
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, The Cone Collection, May–October 1930, no. 1, ill.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Selections from the Cone Collection, 1949, no. 5.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Pictures for a Picture of Gertrude Stein as a Collector and Writer on Art and Artists, February 11–March 11, 1951, no. 6, on wall in frontispiece photograph, as Bathers, lent by Cone Collection. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, March 21–April 21, 1951.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland, November–December 1951, no. 149.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family, December 19, 1970–March 1, 1971, no. 20, ill. Traveled to: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, April 4–June 14, 1971; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Frnacisco, California, September 9–October 31, 1971.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Modern Masters: Manet to Matisse, April 10–May 11, 1975, no number, ill. Traveled to: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, May 28–June 22, 1975; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, August 4–September 28, 1975.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 35, pl. 201. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 99, ill.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 63, pl. 167.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 54, ill., as Baigneurs, 1898-1900, lent by Baltimore Museum of Art.
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, The Repeating Image: Multiples in French Painting from David to Matisse, October 7, 2007–January 1, 2008, no. 55, ill., p. 142, fig. 14. Traveled to: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, January 20–May 4, 2008.
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, Cézanne and American Modernism, September 13, 2009–January 3, 2010, no. 18, ill., p. 160. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, February 14–May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, June 26–September 26, 2010.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, May 21–September 6, 2011, pl. 36, cat. 14 (Stein coll.), as Bathers, 1898-1900, lent by Baltimore Museum. Traveled to: Grand Palais, Paris, October 5, 2011–January 16, 2012 (see Paris 2011-12a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 21–June 3, 2012.
Grand Palais, Paris, Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso ... L'aventure des Stein, October 5, 2011–January 16, 2012, no. 8, ill., as Baigneurs, 1898-1900, lent by The Baltimore Musuem of Art.
Published References
Dreyfus, Albert. "Paul Cézanne." Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 24, no. 9 (June 1913), p. 199, ill.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne: Huit phototypies d'après Cézanne;
Lettres de M.M. Jacques Flach, de L'Institut et André Suarès. Paris: Editions Crès, 1919, ill. p. 49.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 724, ill. vol. II, as Les Baigneurs.
Brian, D. "The Baltimore Museum's Cone Collection: A Pointed Star." Art Digest 24 (January 15, 1950), p. 7, ill.
Cone collection: a handbook with a catalogue of paintings and sculpture. Baltimore, [1955], p. 27, no. 10, ill. in color p. 15, as Bathers, c. 1895.
Sprigge, Elizabeth. Gertrude Stein: Her Life and Work. New York: Harper, 1950, ill. between pp. 112 and 113.
Pollack, Barbara. The Collectors: Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1962, p. 172 (ill. shows painting hanging in Etta's dining room).
The Baltimore Museum of Art. Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings in the Cone Collection. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, no. 10, ill. p. 19.
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 44, ill.
Steinberg, Leo. "Resisting Cézanne: Picasso's 'Three Women.'" Art in America 66, no. 6 (November–December 1978), fig. 9.
Richardson, Brenda. Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985, pp. 110, 176.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 56, fig. 34.
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. 861, ill. vol. 2, as Baigneurs.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, fig. 11c (detail p. 25, p. 292, no. 128, ill., as Baigneurs, c. 1900.
Shiff, Richard. "Risible Cézanne." In The Repeating Image: Multiples in French Painting from David to Matisse. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 142, fig. 14, as Baigneurs, dated 1899–1900.
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. 397, no. 14, as Bathers.
Parker, Robert McD. with the collaboration of Maxime Touillet. "Résidences de Leo Stein' and 'Résidences de Gertrude Stein." In Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso … L'aventure des Stein, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, Rebecca Rabinow and Gary Tinterow. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 397, no. 18 in fig. 56 and p. 398, no. 4 in fig. 57, as Baigneurs.
Elderfield, John. "Excavations." In Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 15, fig. 13, as Bathers, dated 1898–1900.
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Record last updated September 18, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneurs, 1898–1900 (FWN 962)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=836 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
