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FWN 2079
Académie d'homme
1862
Alternate titles: Academic Nude, Seen from the Back; Académie; Aktstudie; Male nude; Nude
Chappuis (78); Venturi (1627): 1862
Charcoal and black chalk with stumping and erasing on laid paper, laid down on heavy wove paper
24 9/16 x 17 1/16 in. (62.4 x 43.4 cm)
Signed and dated: Paul Cezanne 1862 on the verso
The Art Institute of Chicago (Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection)

Keywords

Provenance
Henri Pontier, Aix-en-Provence
Gustave Coquiot, Paris
Wladimir Walter, Paris
Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve;
Private collection, Paris;
Chappuis-Barut Collection, Christie's, London, June 26, 2003, no. 304, ill.
Dorothy Braude Edinburg;
The Art Institute of Chicago (2013)
Exhibition History
1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 98, as Aktstudie, 1862, lent by Adrien Chappuis, Paris.
1939d London
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 74, as Nude, 1862, lent by A. Chappuis.
1974 Tokyo and traveling
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 89, ill., as Académie d'homme, 1862, lent by Private collection, France. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
2013a Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings from the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, March 15–June 15, 2013.
2013b Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Undressed: The Fashion of Privacy, June 22–September 29, 2013.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, hors catalogue. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1627, ill. vol. II, as Académie.
Rewald 1948b
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 11.
Chappuis 1957
Chappuis, Adrien. Dessins de Cézanne. Lausanne: 1957, p. 76, no. 2, pl. [2].
Murphy 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 18, ill.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 78, ill., as Male nude.
Ely 1984
Ely, Bruno. "Cézanne, L'Ecole de dessin et le Musée d'Aix." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 161.
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 24, ill., as Male nude.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 301, no. 205, ill. 1862.
Shelley 2014
Shelley, Marjorie. "Cézanne as Draftsman." In Madame Cézanne. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 41.
Marchesseau 2017
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 102, ill.
Simms 2017
Simms, Matthew. "Cézanne's Sympathetic Drawing." In The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 143, ill.
Notes

See the not for FWN2077.

At the upper right are some rhymes written in pencil (quite faded) and some faintly drawn heads of a pig and a woman in a bonnet.

Record last updated April 9, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Académie d'homme, 1862 (FWN 2079), laid down on heavy wove paper." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1725 (accessed on May 2, 2024).