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 950
Baigneurs
1890–92
Alternate titles: Bathers; Les Baigneurs; Six baigneurs
Rewald (666): 1890–92; Venturi revised: 1885–88; Venturi (581): 1892–94
Oil on canvas
20 11/16 x 25 5/16 in. (52.7 x 64.2 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
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. 28, ill., as Baigneurs, 1894, lent by Mrs. Beatty.
Rosenberg & Helft, London, Exhibition Cézanne (1839-1906) to celebrate his centenary, April 19–May 20, 1939, no. 18, ill., (dated 1894), lent by Mrs. Beatty.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 59, pl. 137.
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Impressionism: Selections from Five American Museums, November 4–December 31, 1989, no. 12, ill. lent by Saint Louis Art Museum. Traveled to: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, January 27–March 25, 1990; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, April 21–June 17, 1990; Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, July 14–September 9, 1990; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, September 30–November 25, 1990.
Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy, De Puvis de Chavannes à Matisse et Picasso: vers l'art moderne, February 10–June 6, 2002, no. 52, ill., as Baigneurs.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 41, fig. 42, pp. 40, 341–42 (size: 543 x 66 cm), as Baigneurs, shown in New York and Chicago. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, The Repeating Image: Multiples in French Painting from David to Matisse, October 7, 2007–January 1, 2008, no. 51, ill., p. 133, fig. 29. Traveled to: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, January 20–May 4, 2008.
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Monet Collectionneur, September 14, 2017–January 14, 2018, no. 60, ill.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 102, ill. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 581, ill. vol. II, as Baigneurs .
Schenck, Edgar. "Girl with Her Doll." Bulletin of the Honolulu Academy of Arts 5, no. 1 (March 1937), fig. 4.
"Pariskrönika: Cézanne-utställningar." Konstrevy (Stockholm) XV, no. 3 (1939), ill. p. 116, as Les Baigneurs.
Georges-Michel, Michel. Peintres et sculpteurs que j'ai connus, 1900–1942. New York: Brentano's, 1942, p. 42.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 39, fig. 45.
C., J. "An oil by Paul Cézanne." Bulletin St. Louis Art Museum Vol. 11, No. 3, (May-June 1975), p. 47, ill.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 118.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Cézanne's Bathers: Form and Content." Arts Magazine 54, no. 9 (May 1980), p. 119, fig. 19.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 139.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 352, fig. 2.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Du plongeon aux baigneuses." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 62, 1892-94.
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. 666, ill. vol. 2, as Baigneurs .
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. pp. 206 and 259 (detail), p. 292, no. 126, ill., as Six baigneurs, 1892-94.
Jensen, Robert. "Vollard and Cézanne: An Anatomy of a Relationship." In Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 40, fig. 42, as Bathers.
Shiff, Richard. "Risible Cézanne." In The Repeating Image: Multiples in French Painting from David to Matisse. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 133, fig. 5, as Bathers, dated 1890–92.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection - New Edition. Stein, Susan Alyson and Asher Ethan Miller. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, fig. 110, ill. p. 150.
Patin, Sylvie. Monet's Private Picture Gallery at Giverny. Montreuil: Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2016, p. 133, ill.
Lobstein, Dominique. "Paul Cézanne in the Monet Collection." In Monet Collectionneur [Monet, The Collector]. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 176, ill. p. 177.
Mathieu, Marianne, and Dominique Lobstein with the collaboration of Claire Gooden. "Vue synoptique de la collection Monet." In Monet Collectionneur [Monet, The Collector]. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 269, listed and ill.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 57.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneurs, 1890–92 (FWN 950)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=646 (accessed on December 21, 2024).
