Acquired by Fritz and Lilly Cassirer, Berlin, prior to 1926
By descent to the present owner
Fritz Cassirer was the brother of the
prominent art dealer Bruno Cassirer and his cousin and business partner Paul
Cassirer. Their Berlin gallery was instrumental in promoting the artists of
the Berlin Secession and the French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, in
particular Van Gogh and Cézanne. The present impression ofLes
Baigneurswas acquired by Fritz prior to his death in 1926, and was brought
to Oxford, England during World War II by Fritz's widow Lilly and her second
husband, the eminent physician and head of internal medicine at the Schwabinger
Hospital in Munich, Professor Otto Neubauer. Upon Neubauer's death in 1957,
Lilly Cassirer moved to the United States, bringing the Cézanne with her, and
the work has remained in the family ever since.
Ambroise, Vollard, Recollections of a Picture Dealer, London, 1936, pp. 247-248
Lionello, Venturi, Cézanne: son Art - son Oeuvre, No. 1157, Vol. 1, Paris, 1936, p. 287
Alphonse Kann maquette repr. Vol. 2, pl. 332
Una E. Johnson, Ambroise Vollard,Editeur, 1867-1939, New York, 1944, No. 30, pp. 15,
68-9, 193
Melvin Waldfogel, Caillebotte, Vollard and Cézanne’s "Baigneurs au Repos", Gazette
des Beaux-Arts, February 1965, pp. 113-20, repr. p.114
Jean Cherpin, L’Oeuvre gravé de Cézanne, Arts et Livres de Provence: Bulletin, No.82,
1972, No.7, pp. 47-58, 68-9, first state repr. p.53
Douglas W. Druick, Cézanne, Vollard and Lithography: the Ottawa Maquette for the
"Large Bathers" Colour Lithograph, The National Gallery of Canada Bulletin, 19, 1972,
1974, pp. 1-36, repr. p. 8
Douglas Druick and William Rubin (ed.), Cézanne’s Lithographs, Cézanne: the Late
Work, London, 1978, pp. 119-37, first state repr. p. 125