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 3008-42a-TA
Baigneur aux bras étendus et homme au bras levé
1883–86
Alternate titles: Baigneuern bras écartés; Page of studies, including a bather with outstretched arms
Chappuis (654); Venturi (1294)
Graphite on wove paper, p. XLII from the CP II sketchbook
4 7/8 x 8 9/16 in. (12.4 x 21.8 cm)
Private Collection, on loan to Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Museum Berggruen
Provenance
Private collection, Paris
Berggruen Family (2002)
Exhibition History
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, The Impressionists and the Salon (1874-1886), April 16–May 12, 1974, no. 13b, ill., as Page of studies, including a bather with outstretched arms, lent by U.C. San Diego Foundation, San Diego. Traveled to: Gallery, University of California, Riverside, California, May 20–June 20, 1974.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Hommage à Cézanne, November 30, 2006–February 11, 2007, no no., as Baigneuern bras écartés, c. 1882/83, lent by Berggruen Collection Ltd.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1294, ill. vol. II, as "Page XLII".
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Bather with Outstretched Arms." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 59, periode 6 (March 1962), p. 188 note 13b.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no, 654, ill., as Page of studies, including a bather with outstretched arms.
Related
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis II (CP II), 1871–98 (3008)
Sketchbook Chappuis II (CP II), 1871–98 (3008)
The sketchbook originally contained 50 sheets; the pages are numbered on the "a" side at lower right in Roman numerals.
At the time of Chappuis' purchase from Paul Guillaume, the sketchbook was incomplete and a number of pages already dispersed and are still missing.
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facing: Feuille d'études avec têtes de madame Cezanne et de Louis-Auguste Cezanne, 1877–81 (3008-41b)
current: Baigneur aux bras étendus et homme au bras levé, 1883–86 (3008-42a-TA)
Record last updated July 7, 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 étendus et homme au bras levé, 1883–86 (FWN 3008-42a-TA), p. XLII from the CP II sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2325&sketchbook=3008 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
