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)
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Dorothy Zeidman
FWN 913
Baigneur aux bras écartés
1877–78
Alternate titles: Bather with Outstretched Arms; Bathers with Raised Arm; The Bather
Rewald (369): 1877–78; Venturi revised: 1888–90; Venturi (544): c.1883
Oil on canvas
13 x 9 3/8 in. (33 x 24 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Paintings by Modern French Masters Representing the Post-Impressionists and Their Predecessors, April 1921, no. 31, as The Bather, lent by G. Bollag.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June 1937, no. 34, as Baigneur aux bras écartés, dated c. 1883, lent by M. Bollag, Zurich.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 44, pl. 94.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, October 1, 1997–February 11, 1998, no. 111.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 123, ill., (dated 1883–85), lent by Johns, shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 191, p. 485 (dated 1883), as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
National Gallery, London, Painters' Painting: From Freud to Van Dyck, June 23–September 4, 2016, no. 33, ill., p. 58, lent by Collection Jasper Johns.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 91, ill.
Published References
Natanson, Thadée. "Paul Cézanne." La Revue Blanche 9, no. 50 (December 1, 1895), pp. 497–98 (possibly describing this work}.
Burroughs, Alan. "Making History of Impressionism." The Arts 1, no. 4 (April 1921), p. 19, ill.
Klein, Jerome. The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1934, pp. 26–28, fig. 2.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 544, 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, 178-179, fig. 6 p. 179.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 21.
Lesko, Diane. "Cézanne's 'Bather' and a Found Self-Portrait." Artforum 15, no. 4 (December 1976), p. 53, ill.
Kendall, Richard. "A Test-Case of Modern Art: Cézanne's Bathers." Apollo (London) 130, no. 333 (November 1989), fig. 1, as Bathers with Raised Arm, c. 1883.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 44, 319, figs. 19 and 165.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 279, fig. 2.
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. 369, ill. vol. 2, as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
Ives, Colta, Susan Stein, Julie Steiner with Ann Dumas, Rebecca Rabinow and Gary Tinterow. The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, A Summary Catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 16–17, no. 111, ill.
Shiff, Richard. "Mark, Motif, Materiality." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 120, fig. 26, as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
Shiff, Richard. "Risible Cézanne." In The Repeating Image: Multiples in French Painting from David to Matisse. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 132, fig. 4, as Bather with Outstretched Arms, dated c. 1883.
Bernstein, Roberta. "Cézanne and Johns: 'At Every Point in Nature There Is Something to See.'" In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 485, pl. 191, as Bather with Outstretched Arms, dated 1883.
Lanchner, Carolyn. 10 Works by Paul Cézanne in the Museum of Modern Art Collection. MoMA Artists Series. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2011, p. 15, fig. 4.
Warman, Jayne. "Cézanne peintre des peintres." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 169, fig. 86, as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
Baker, Christopher. "Painters' Paintings." The Burlington Magazine 153, no. 1362 (September 2016), p. 748.
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Record last updated April 30, 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, 1877–78 (FWN 913)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=365 (accessed on December 13, 2024).
