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Catalogue entry

FWN 910
Baigneur aux bras écartés
c.1876
Alternate titles: Baigneur; Homme nu; Nu de jeune baigneur; Pan
Rewald (252): c.1876; Venturi revised: 1872–77; Cézanne fils: 1880–85; Venturi (262): 1875–77
Oil on canvas
9 3/8 x 5 1/2 in. (24 x 14 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3809, huile; homme nu les bras leves, 24 x 14 cm
Vollard archives: photo no. 210 and 257, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1880–85 ; in another hand: 1880
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (Bequest of Helen Serger in honor of Jack I. Poses and Lillian L. Poses)

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Pierre Bonnard, Paris and Le Cannet;
Bonnard Collection, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, Feb. 28, 1954, no. 11, ill.
Private collection, France
Willi Raeber, Basel
Mrs. Frederick Serger, New York;
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA (1991)
Exhibition History
1910a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 12, as Homme nu, lent by P. Bonnard.
1939b Paris
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 22, as Baigneur, lent by Bonnard.
1945 Fontainebleau
Chateau de Fontainebleau, Salle du Jeu de Paume, Fontainbleau, France, Peintures contemporaines, August–September 1945, no. 13, as Pan, tentative identification.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 22, pl. 98.
Published References
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 48.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 262, ill. vol. II, as Nu de jeune baigneur.
Reff 1962a
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Bather with Outstretched Arms." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 59, periode 6 (March 1962), pp. 176-177, 180 and 182.
Geist 1980
Geist, Sidney. "Cézanne: Metamorphosis of the Self." Artscribe, no. 26 (December 1980), p. 10, fig. 1.
Rewald 1996
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 252, ill. vol. 2, as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
Notes

Dorival (1948) connected the pose of the bather with Daniel by Marius Mercié in the Louvre; Reff (1962) links it with a Dancing Satyr in the Louvre.  Pierre Bonnard, who owned it, made a lithograph after it for the Album Bernhim-Jeune (1914).

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Record last updated March 8, 2021. 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, c.1876 (FWN 910)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=255 (accessed on April 24, 2024).