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The Bathers
Paul Cezanne · 1899-1904
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
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.
Literature
Published references
- 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.
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