The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 2012
Baigneur aux bras écartés
1874–77
Alternate titles: Badender mit ausgebreiteten Armen; Bather with outstretched arms
Chappuis (385); Venturi (1260): 1875–85
Graphite on laid paper, added strip of paper at the top
7 1/16 x 4 3/8 in. (17.9 x 11.1 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris, Aquarelles et baignades de Cézanne, June 3–17, 1935.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 129, as Badender mit ausgebreiteten Armen, c. 1880, lent by Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, September 25, 2010–January 2, 2011, no. 71, ill., as Bather with outstretched arms, with comments by Douglas Druick.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Gray Collection: Pure Drawing, January 15–September 30, 2020, GC93, ill., as Bather with outstretched arms. Traveled to: UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, June 15–September 30, 2020; The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, February 26–June 6, 2021.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 97, ill. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1260, ill. vol. II, as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Bather with Outstretched Arms." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 59, periode 6 (March 1962), p. 188 note 13a.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 385, ill., as Bather with outstretched arms.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 318, no. 43, ill.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 76, fig. 3, as Bather with outstretched arms.
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Record last updated July 19, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneur aux bras écartés, 1874–77 (FWN 2012), added strip of paper at the top." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2043 (accessed on May 3, 2025).
