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Catalogue entry

FWN 2111
Nu
c.1869
Alternate titles: Etude pour L'Autopsie; Homme nu; Male Nude; Nu masculin; Nu masculin (étude pour L'Autopsie); Sitzender männlicher Akt; Study for The Autopsy
Chappuis (110): c.1865
Charcoal with stumping on laid paper
12 5/8 x 19 3/16 in. (32 x 48.7 cm)
The Art Institute of Chicago (Gift of Tiffany and Margaret Blake)

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Provenance
(Auguste Pellerin, Paris?)
[Maynard Walker]
Mrs. Benny Goodman
Maynard Walker Gallery
The Art Institute of Chicago (1947)
Exhibition History
1952 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 8, ill., as Study for The Autopsy, c. 1867-69, The Art Institute of Chicago. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
1963h New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Master Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 17–November 30, 1963, no. 107.
1970 Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944–1970 by Margaret Day Blake, April 28–June 7, 1970, no. 33, ill.
1971 Washington, D.C. and traveling
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 65, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
1978 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 3, ill. p. 94, as Sitzender männlicher Akt, 1865–67, lent by The Art Institute Chicago.
1988–89a London and traveling
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 75, ill., as Male Nude, shown in London only. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19, 1988–January 1, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 29–April 30, 1989.
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, no. 21, ill. 1867–69, shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Rewald 1948b
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 13.
Rewald 1950c
Rewald, John. The Ordeal of Paul Cézanne. London, 1950, fig. 3.
Chappuis 1957
Chappuis, Adrien. Dessins de Cézanne. Lausanne: 1957, pp. 76-77, no. 3, pl. [3].
Neumeyer 1958
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 4, ill.
Rewald 1959b
Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Spring Books, 1959, fig. 3.
Rewald 1961
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 63, ill.
Taillandier 1961
Taillander, Yvon. P. Cézanne. Milan: Antonio Vallardi, 1961, p. 14, ill.
Longstreet 1964
Longstreet, Stephen. The Drawings of Cézanne. Los Angeles: Borden Publishing Company, ill.
Murphy 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 24, ill.
Ikegami 1970
Ikegami, Chuji. "The Drawings of Paul Cézanne." Bijutsushi 76 (1970), no. 76, p. 132, ill.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 110, ill., as Male Nude.
Ballas 1981
Ballas, Guila. "Paul Cézanne et la revue 'L'Artiste.'" Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 98, periode 6 (December 1981), pp. 224-225 and 231, fig. 13 p. 228, as Nu masculin, c. 1865.
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 32, ill., as Etude pour L'Autopsie, c. 1865.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 36, ill.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 156, fig. 133.
Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 281, fig. 2, as Nu, 1865.
Lewis 2011a
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "La montée de Cézanne à Paris." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 18.
Lewis 2012
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Cézanne and the Louvre." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 101, fig. 55, as Study for The Autopsy.

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Record last updated January 6, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Nu, c.1869 (FWN 2111)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1758 (accessed on April 28, 2024).