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Catalogue entry

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)
Jasper Johns

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Edgar Degas, Paris (Nov. 20, 1895);
Degas Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, Mar. 26–27, 1918, no. 12, ill.
G. & L. Bollag, Zurich;
Bollag, Zurich, April 3, 1925, no. 40, pl. XIV; bought in;
Bollag, Zurich, Nov. 11, 1933, no. 27, pl. III; bought in
Max Bollag, Zurich;
Phillips, New York, May 13, 1985, no. 76, ill.; bought in
Bollag, Zurich, March 15, 1989, no. 50
Jasper Johns
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
1921 Brooklyn
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.
1937a London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June 1937, no. 34, as Baigneur aux bras écartés, dated c. 1883, lent by M. Bollag, Zurich.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 44, pl. 94.
1997–98 New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, October 1, 1997–February 11, 1998, no. 111.
2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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.
2009 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 191, p. 485 (dated 1883), as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
2016 London
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.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 91, ill.
Published References
Natanson 1895
Natanson, Thadée. "Paul Cézanne." La Revue Blanche 9, no. 50 (December 1, 1895), pp. 497–98 (possibly describing this work}.
Burroughs 1921
Burroughs, Alan. "Making History of Impressionism." The Arts 1, no. 4 (April 1921), p. 19, ill.
Klein 1934
Klein, Jerome. The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1934, pp. 26–28, fig. 2.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 544, ill. vol. II, as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
Beucken 1955
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 276.
Reff 1962a
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 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 21.
Lesko 1976
Lesko, Diane. "Cézanne's 'Bather' and a Found Self-Portrait." Artforum 15, no. 4 (December 1976), p. 53, ill.
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 109, ill.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 119, ill.
Kendall 1989
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 1989
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 and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 279, fig. 2.
Dumas 1996
Dumas, Ann. Degas as a Collector. London: Apollo Magazine Ltd., 1996, fig. 55, ill.
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. 369, ill. vol. 2, as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
Ives et al 1997
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 2000
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 2007
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 2009
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 2011
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 2011
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 2016
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 April 26, 2024).