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Catalogue entry

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)
The Art Institute of Chicago (gift of Richard and Mary L Gray) (2019.840)

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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Jacques Dubourg, Paris;
Private collection;
Christie's, London, Feb. 5, 2004, no. 312, ill.
Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago;
The Art Institute of Chicago (2019)
Exhibition History
1935b Paris
Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris, Aquarelles et baignades de Cézanne, June 3–17, 1935.
1936 Basel
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.
2010–11 Chicago
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.
2020–21 Chicago and traveling
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.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 97, ill. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Else Cassirer 1923
Else Cassirer. Künstlerbriefe. Berlin, 1923, p. 602, ill.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 118, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1260, ill. vol. II, as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
Reff 1962a
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Bather with Outstretched Arms." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 59, periode 6 (March 1962), p. 188 note 13a.
Chappuis 1973
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 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 318, no. 43, ill.
Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021
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 15, 2024).