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Catalogue entry

FWN 914
Baigneur aux bras écartés
1877–78
Alternate titles: Homme nu; Jeune homme; Nu
Rewald (370): 1885–87,1877–78; 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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 395, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1878
Private collection, Qatar

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (June 7, 1910)
Auguste Pellerin, Paris (July 6, 1910);
M. et Mme René Lecomte, Paris;
Private collection, France
Private collection, Qatar
Exhibition History
1910c Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Nus, May 17–28, 1910, no. 11, as Jeune homme, tentative identification.
1954 Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 54, lent by private collection, Paris.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 48, pl. 93.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
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.
2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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.
2008–09 Paris
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 1917
Vollard, Ambroise. "Cézanne's Studio." The Soil 1, no. 3 (March 1917), ill. between pp. 102 and 103.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 210, listed.
Diolé 1931
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.
Waldemar-George 1931
Waldemar-George. "The Twilight of a God." Apollo 14 (August 1931), fig. VI.
Zervos 1931
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 1934
Klein, Jerome. The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1934, pp. 26–28, fig. 3.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. XCVI p. 131.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 549, ill. vol. II, as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 52.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 130, listed p. 168.
Gowing 1956
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 190, note 11.
Reff 1962a
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 1976
Lesko, Diane. "Cézanne's 'Bather' and a Found Self-Portrait." Artforum 15, no. 4 (December 1976), p. 53, ill.
Bernstein 1977
Bernstein, Roberta. "Jasper Johns and the Figure: Part One: Body Imprints." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), fig. 12.
Geist 1980
Geist, Sidney. "Cézanne: Metamorphosis of the Self." Artscribe, no. 26 (December 1980), fig. 2.
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. 370, ill. vol. 2, as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
Feilchenfeldt, C. 2000a
Feilchenfeldt, Christina. "Portraits." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 144, fig. 1, as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
Andersen 2004
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 126, fig. 71.
Machotka 2008
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 2011d
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 264, fig. 191.
Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 174, fig. 119.
Dauberville 2020
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.
Cezanne 2021
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 April 24, 2024).