The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
Catalogue entry
FWN 914
Baigneur aux bras écartés
1877–78
Alternate title: Jeune homme
Rewald: (370) 1885–87,1877–78; Venturi: (549) 1885–87; Venturi revised: 1888–90; Cézanne fils: 1878; 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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 395, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1878
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection, France
Private collection
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Nus, May 17–28, 1910. A total of 129 works were shown, no. 11, as Jeune homme, tentative identification.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954 (exhibition catalogue; introduction by Germain Bazin and catalogue notes by Albert Châtelet), no. 54, lent by private collection, Paris.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989 (exhibition catalogue; text by Mary Louise Krumrine with essays by Gottfried Boehm and Christian Geelhaar), no. 48, pl. 93.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996. Organised by Réunion des musées nationaux / musée d'Orsay, Tate Gallery and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Initially scheduled to end on January 7 the Paris exhibition was prolonged until January 14. (exhibition catalogue; text by Françoise Cachin and Joseph Rishel with contributions by Isabelle Cahn, Walter Feilchenfeldt and Henri Loyrette; English edition: Cézanne, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 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, District of Columbia, Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006. Curated by Philip Conisbee and Denis Coutagne. (exhibition catalogue), no. 122, ill., (dated 1883–85), lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
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.
Waldemar George. "The Twilight of a God." Apollo 14 (August 1931), fig. VI.
Zervos, Christian. "Les Problèmes de la jeune peinture." Cahiers d'Art, no. 4 (March–April 1931), p. 199, ill.
Klein, Jerome. The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1934, pp. 26–28, fig. 3.
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. XCVI.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 549, ill. vol. II as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 52.
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Tisne, 1948, pl. 130.
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." Burlington 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 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.
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.
Related work
Record last updated July 21, 2015. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Baigneur aux bras écartés, 1877–78 (FWN 914)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=366 (accessed on February 22, 2019).