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 911-TA
Baigneur aux bras écartés
c.1876
Alternate title: Baigneur aux bras écartés or Homme nu
Rewald (253): c.1876; Venturi revised: 1874–77; Cézanne fils: circa 1880; Venturi (271): 1875–76
Oil on canvas
9 1/16 x 5 7/8 in. (23 x 15 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 321, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1880
Private collection, France
Provenance
Exhibition History
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 36, lent by private collection, Paris.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 34, pl. 99.
Published References
Klein, Jerome. The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1934, fig. 1.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 271, 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), pp. 176-178, 180 and 182, fig. 5 p. 178.
Lesko, Diane. "Cézanne's 'Bather' and a Found Self-Portrait." Artforum 15, no. 4 (December 1976), p. 53, ill.
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. 253, ill. vol. 2, as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 125, fig. 70.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 277, ill., as Baigneur aux bras écartés or Homme nu.
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Record last updated April 7, 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 911-TA)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=256 (accessed on April 27, 2024).
