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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    The Bathers
    Paul Cezanne. The Bathers, 1899-1904. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00000985

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    The Bathers

    by Paul Cezanne

    Provenance

    Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939), Paris. Jacques Zoubaloff (1876–1941), Paris, between 1918–1922; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June16–17, 1927, lot 113 (ill.). Jos. Hessel, Paris [according to Rewald 1996]. Paul Rosenberg and Co., Paris and New York, 1928 [New York 1928]. Chester H. Johnson Gallery, Chicago [Chicago 1933]. Mrs. Robert R. McCormick (Amy Irwin McCormick; 1872–1939), Chicago, by 1929 [see Chicago 1929 exhibition materials, Archives of American Art, copy in curatorial file]; By descent to her husband, Colonel Robert R. McCormick (1880–1955), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1942.

    Exhibition history

    New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co. at Wildenstein Galleries, Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Paul Cezanne, 1839–1906, Jan. 1928, cat. 8, as Les Baigneurs. Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Exhibition of Modern French Paintings, Jan. 22–Feb. 2, 1929, no cat. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Summer Exhibition: Retrospective, June–Sept. 1930, cat. 15, as Bathers. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 306, as c. 1890. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 291, as c. 1890. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Robert R. McCormick, Apr. 17–June 2, 1940, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, December 1943, no cat. Cincinnati Art Museum, Paintings by Paul Cézanne, Feb. 5–Mar. 9, 1947, cat. 12 (ill.), as Bathers (Baigneuses), 1900–05. Oberlin, OH, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Exhibition, May 10–30, 1950, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings; A Loan Exhibition, Feb. 7–Mar. 16, 1952, cat. 98 (ill.), as Bathers, 1900–05; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings; A Loan Exhibition, Apr.–May 18, 1952. Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, An Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne, Aug. 20–Sept. 18, 1954, cat. 60 (ill.), as Baigneuses, c. 1900; London, Tate Gallery, Sept. 29–Oct. 27, 1954. Cleveland Museum of Art, Venetian Tradition, Nov. 1956–Jan. 1957, no cat. San Francisco Museum of Art, Man: Glory, Jest and Riddle; A Survey of the Human Form through the ages, Nov. 10, 1964–Jan. 3, 1965, cat. 238 (ill.), as 1900–05. Washington, DC, Phillips Collection, Cézanne: An Exhibition to Honor the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, Feb. 27–Mar. 28, 1971, cat. 29 (ill.), as Bathers; Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 30, 1971. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Cézanne: The Late Work, Oct. 7, 1977–Jan. 3, 1978, cat. 38, as Bathers (Baigneuses); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Jan. 25–Mar. 21, 1977; Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, as Cézanne: Les Dernières Années (1895–1906), Apr. 20–July 23, 1978, cat. 100. Liège, Belgium, Musée Saint Georges, Cézanne, Mar. 12–May 9, 1982, cat. 28 (ill.), as 1900–05; Aix–en–Provence, France, Musée Granet, June 12–Aug. 31, 1982. Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 18–Dec. 17, 1985, cat. 52 (ill.); Fukuoka, Japan, Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5–Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto, Japan, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4–Apr. 13, 1986. Basel, Kunstmuseum, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, Sept. 10–Dec. 10, 1989, cat. 68, (ill.), as Baigneuses, 1900–04. Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Cézanne, Sept. 25, 1995–Jan. 7, 1996, cat. 220 (ill); London, Tate Gallery, Feb. 8–Apr. 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 26–Aug. 18, 1996. Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Cézanne in Provence, Jan. 29–May 7, cat. 126, 2006, as Bathers; Aix–en–Provence, France, Musée Granet, June 9–Sept. 7, 2006. Fort Worth, TX, Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 68 (ill.). Budapest, Szépművészeti Múzeum, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, Oct. 25, 2012–Feb. 17, 2013, cat. 145 (ill.), as Bathers. Art Institute of Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–Sept. 5, 2022, cat. 107; London, Tate, Oct. 5, 2022–Mar. 12, 2023. Aix-en-Provence, France, Musée Granet, Cezanne au Jas de Bouffan, June 28–Oct. 12, 2025, cat. 104 as Baigneuses et baigneurs (color ill.).

    Publications

    Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art, son oeuvre (Paris, 1936), vol. 1, p. 192, no. 722, vol. 2, pl. 238. Clarence Bulliet, Apples and Madonnas (New York, 1930), p. 49. The Studio 106 (October 1933), p. 200. D. Odenheimer, “Mrs. Robert R. McCormick, Painter and Collector,” The Art Institute Bulletin 34 (April-May, 1940), p. 60 (ill.). “McCormick Art Given to Chicago,” Art Digest (December 15, 1942), p. 19. Edgar Allan Jewell, Paul Cézanne (New York ,1944) , p. 34 (ill.). Liliane Brion-Guerry, Cézanne et l’expression de l’espace (Paris, 1950), fig. 28. James Speyer, “Twentieth-Century European Painting and Sculpture,” Apollo 84 (September 1966), p. 222. The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly no. 1 (February 1952), pp. 2-8. Gertrude Berthold, Cezanne und die alten Meister (Stuttgart, 1958), p. 43, fig. 58. The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 73, 326 (ill.). Fritz Novotny, Paul Cezanne, 1839-1906 (London, 1961), p. 41. Liliane Brion-Guerry, Cézanne et l’expression de l’espace (Paris, 1966), p. 193. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), pp. 105-104 (ill). Kurt Badt, Das Spätwerk Cézannes (Konstanz, 1971), p. 21 (ill.). S. Geist in Art International (November 20, 1975), p. 12 (ill.). Theodore Reff, “Cézanne’s Late Bather Paintings,” Arts Magazine (October 1977), p. 118, fig. 9. R. Kendall, ed., Cézanne by Himself (London, 1988), p. 262 (ill.). K. Adler in Art in America (April 1990), p. 237 (ill.). Michael Howard, Cézanne (London, 1990), pp. 152-153 (ill.). Mary Louise Krumrine, “Cézanne’s ‘Restricted Power’: Further Reflections on the ‘Bathers’,” Burlington Magazine (September 1992), p. 592. John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalgoue Raisonné (New York, 1996), vol. 1, p. 512-13, no. 859, vol. 2, p. 301 (ill.). Philip Conisbee and Denis Coutagne, Cézanne in Provance, exh. cat. (Washington: National Gallery of Art; Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet; Paris: Reunion de musées nationaux, 2006), 239, 253 cat. 126, 323. The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 68, pgs. 142, 143 (ill.). Achim Borchardt-Hume, Gloria Groom, Caitlin Haskell and Natalia Sidlina, eds., Cezanne, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022), 174 cat. 107. Denis Couragne, ed., Cezanne au Jas de Bouffan, exh. cat. (Paris: GrandPalaisRmn, 2025), 202 (ill.), 272 cat. 104.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)
    Date
    1899-1904
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    51.3 × 61.7 cm (20 3/16 × 24 1/4 in.); Framed: 69.3 × 79.7 × 8.3 cm (27 1/4 × 31 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    Post-Impressionism
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Amy McCormick Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1942.457

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