Five Bathers

1879 - 1880

Paul Cézanne French, 1839-1906

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Modern, Level 2, Central Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Five Bathers

Artwork Date 1879 - 1880

Artist Paul Cézanne

Life Dates 1839-1906

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 13 5/8 inches × 15 inches (34.6 × 38.1 cm) Framed: 22 3/8 inches × 24 1/4 inches × 4 inches (56.8 × 61.6 × 10.2 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 70.162

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Provenance

sold by (Ambroise Vollard [1866-1939], Paris, France);
March 24, 1900, purchased by Egisto Fabbri (Florence, Italy) [for 2500 francs];
gift to his sister, Contessa Ernestine Ludolf, née Fabbri (Florence, Italy);
(Jean Dieterle, Paris, France);
before January 28, 1937, Mme. Paul [Juliette] Guillaume (Paris, France);
January-February 1937, Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Mostra individuale di Paul Cézanne. Exh. cat., Venice Biennale. Venice, 1920, no. 12.

Henraux, L. "Une grande collection de Cézanne en Italie, la collection Egisto Fabbri." Amour de l'art 5 (November 1923): pp. 337-344.

Raynal, M. Cézanne, Collection initiation à l'art moderne. New York, 1936, p. 128 (ill.).

Venturi, L. Cézanne. Paris, 1936, vol.1, p. 149, no. 389; vol. 2, pl. 106.

Dorival, B. Cézanne. Paris, 1948, pp. 63-68, 146, no. 68 (ill.).

Berthold, G. Cézanne und Die Alten Meister. Stuttgart, 1958, p. 39, no. 44 (ill.).

The Robert Hudson Tannahill Bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1970, pp. 27, 36 (ill.).

Reff, T. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977): pp. 34-37.

Shiff, R. "Seeing Cézanne" Critical Inquiry 4, no. 4 (Summer 1978): pp. 769-808, pp. 775-76, 804-805 (fig. 2).

Shiff, R. Cézanne and the End of Impressionism. Chicago and London, 1984, pp. 167-168, 191 (fig. 35).

Rewald, J. Cézanne, a Biography. New York, 1986, p. 141 (ill.).

Geist, S. Interpreting Cézanne. Cambridge, MA, and London, 1988, pp. 234-238, pl. 194.

Rewald, J. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics 1891-1921. Princeton, 1989, p. 25.

Reff, T. and I.H. Shoemaker. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 1989, pp. 126, 48.

Krumrine, M.L. Paul Cézanne Die Badenden. Exh. cat., Kunstmuseum. Basel, 1989, pp. 168, 179, cat. 31 (ill.).

Adler, K. "Cézanne's Bodies." Art in America 78 (April 1990): pp. 234, 237, 277.

Krumrine, M.L. "Cezanne's 'restricted power': further reflections on the 'Bathers'." Burlington Magazine 134, no. 1074 (September 1992): pp. 586-595 (fig. 15).

Adriani, G. Paul Cézanne. Exh. cat., Kunsthalle. Tübingen, 1993, cat. 33 (ill.).

Adriani, G. Cézanne Paintings. Cologne, 1993, pp. 126-128, cat. 33 (ill.).

Darragon, É. Cézanne. Paris, 1995, no. 93, pp. 83-85 (ill.).

Rewald, J., W. Feilchenfeldt, and J. Warman. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné. New York, 1996, vol. 1, pp. 303-304, no. 448; vol. 2, p. 144 (ill.). [as ca. 1879-1880.]

Classic Cézanne. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales. Sydney, 1998, no. 53, p. 128, repro. p. 132, cover detail.

Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., the Phillips Collection. Washington, D.C., 2000, pp. 86-87, 138 (ill.).

Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts: Masters of Impressionism and Modern Art. Exh. cat., Sogo Museum of Art, et al. Yokohama, 2001, pp. 33, 76, no. 18, (ill.) p. 77.

Locke, N., "Cézanne's Bathers, Watteau, and the Idea of Fantasy." Bulletin of the DIA 77, nos. 1-2, pp. 19-31 (figs. 1, 11).

Cézanne in Florence. Exh. cat., Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi. Florence, 2007, p. 100, p. 101 (ill.).

Eiling, Alexander, ed. Cézanne: Metamorphoses. Exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe, Germany, 2017, p. 213 (fig. 2).

Borchardt-Hume, Achim, Gloria Groom, Caitlin Haskell, and Natalia Sidlina, eds. Cezanne. Exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago and the Tate. New Haven and London, 2022, pp. 168-169, (cat. no. 101, ill.).

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