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Male Nude
by Paul Cezanne
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, upper center, in graphite: "No. 5" [?]; verso, various inscriptions, in graphite, erased: "1863 / CEZANNE / 10 rd 10/21 [?] / entre Ingres … épais autre [?] CEZANNE / 5142 cadre aux …"
Provenance
Dr. Paul Gachet (1828–1909), Auvers; by descent to his son, Paul Gachet (1873–1962), Auvers, by 1936; sold to James Lord (born 1922), New York. Justin K. Thannhauser (1892–1976), New York; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, 1956; sold, Christie’s, New York, Nov. 14, 1996, lot 103, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 102, cat. 67 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," March 15-June 15, 2014, no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Cezanne", May 11 - September 5, 2022, p. 88, cat. 20 (ill.), cat. by Achim Borchardt-Hume, Gloria Groom, et. al.
Publications
Ambroise Vollard, Paul Cézanne (Paris, 1914), p. 5 (ill.). Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art—son oeuvre (Paris, 1936), I, p. 289, cat. 1165, II, pl. 333. C. Ikegumi, “The Drawings of Paul Cézanne,” Bijutsushi, no. 76 (1970), p. II a (ill.). Adrien Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné (London, 1973), I, p. 72, cat. 100, II (ill). Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 102, cat. 67 (ill.). Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman, and David Nash, "Modèle nu assis accoudé, c.1863 (FWN 2086)," The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1749 (accessed on February 1, 2019).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Paul Cèzanne / French, 1839–1906
- Date
- 1863/66
- Medium
- Black chalk, with touches of stumping and erasing, on mottled blue-gray laid paper, altered to a light gray tone
- Dimensions
- 31.4 × 46.1 cm (12 3/8 × 18 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.911
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