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 914
Baigneur aux bras écartés
1877–78
Alternate titles: Homme nu; Jeune homme; Nu
Rewald (370): 1877–78,1885–87; Venturi revised: 1888–90; Cézanne fils: 1878; Venturi (549): 1885–87; Rivière: 1883; Vollard: 1887; Gowing: first half of the 1880s (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 23 5/8 in. (73 x 60 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3481, huile; au premier plan, un homme nu en caleçon se tient debout devant la mer; ciel avec des nuages blancs sur bleu, 73 x 60 cm (150 frs)
Private collection, Qatar
Provenance
Private collection, France
Private collection, Qatar
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Nus, May 17–28, 1910, no. 11, as Jeune homme, tentative identification.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 54, lent by private collection, Paris.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 48, pl. 93.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 103, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 122, ill., (dated 1883–85), lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Grand Palais, Paris, Picasso et les maîtres, October 8, 2008–February 2, 2009, listed p. 356, ill. p. 138, as Baigneur aux bras écartés, 1883-85, lent by Private collection.
Published References
Vollard, Ambroise. "Cézanne's Studio." The Soil 1, no. 3 (March 1917), ill. between pp. 102 and 103.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 210, listed.
Diolé, Philippe. "Journaux et revues: Le crépuscule d'un dieu." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité (October 25, 1931), ill. p. 21, as Nu.
Zervos, Christian. "Les Problèmes de la jeune peinture: Le retour au sujet est-il probable?" Cahiers d'Art, nos. 3 and 4 (1931), p. 199, ill.
Klein, Jerome. The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1934, pp. 26–28, fig. 3.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 549, ill. vol. II, as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 190, note 11.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Bather with Outstretched Arms." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 59, periode 6 (March 1962), pp. 173-176 and 179, fig. 1, p. 175.
Lesko, Diane. "Cézanne's 'Bather' and a Found Self-Portrait." Artforum 15, no. 4 (December 1976), p. 53, ill.
Bernstein, Roberta. "Jasper Johns and the Figure: Part One: Body Imprints." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), fig. 12.
Geist, Sidney. "Cézanne: Metamorphosis of the Self." Artscribe, no. 26 (December 1980), 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. 370, ill. vol. 2, as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
Feilchenfeldt, Christina. "Portraits." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 144, fig. 1, as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 126, fig. 71.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 85; vol. 2, p. 77, as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 264, fig. 191.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 174, fig. 119.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 276, ill., as Homme nu.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 85.
Notes
This canvas has previously been thought to have been exhibited in Vollard's 1895 retrospective of Cézanne's work, but it cannot be proven. The previous painting of the same subject, however [Baigneur aux bras écartés, 1877–78 (913)], was purchased by Edgar Degas from that exhibition and is the likelier candidate.
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Record last updated March 7, 2023. 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 914)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=366 (accessed on July 5, 2025).
