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Academic Nude, Seen from the Back
by Paul Cezanne
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, verso, lower right, in black chalk: "Paul Cézanne 1862"; inscribed recto, upper right, in graphite, several lines of illegible text: "… / le cholera, ça… / en ciel… / Dans la culotte il devait faire / Chacun sait ça"
Provenance
Given by the artist to Henri Pontier (1842–1927), Aix-en Provence, 1862; given to Gustave Coquiot (1865–1926), Paris, 1914. Wladimir Walter, Paris. Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve, by 1936; by descent to the Chappuis-Barut collection; sold, Christie’s, London, June 25, 2003, lot 304, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Kunsthalle Basel, "Paul Cézanne," Aug.–Oct. 1936, cat. 98. London, Wildenstein Galleries, "Homage to Paul Cézanne," July 1939, cat. 74. Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, "Cézanne," Mar. 30–May 19, 1974, cat. 89; also the Municipal Museum, Kyoto, June 1–July 17, 1974, and the Cultural Center, Fukuoka, July 24–Aug. 18, 1974. 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. 100, cat. 65 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "Undressed: The Fashion of Privacy," June 22-Sept. 29, 2013, no cat. 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, cat. by Achim Borchardt-Hume, Gloria Groom, et. al.
Publications
Gustave Coquiot, Paul Cézanne (Paris, 1919), p. 22. Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art—son oeuvre (Paris, 1936), p. 346, cat. 1627, pl. 405. Adrien Chappuis, Dessins de Cézanne (Lausanne, 1957), p. 76, cat. 2, ill.. Alfred Neumeyer, Cézanne Drawings (New York, 1958), p. 35, under cat. 1. R. Murphy, The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906 (New York, 1968), p. 18, ill.. Adrien Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. (London, 1973), p. 67, cat. 78. John Rewald, Cézanne: A Biography (New York, 1986), p. 24, 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. 100, cat. 65(ill.). Dita Amory, Madame Cezanne (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2014), p.109, fig. 41 Anita Haldemann, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, (Kunstmuseum, Basel, 2017), pp. 140, 143, fig. 1. Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman, and David Nash "Académie d'homme, 1862 (FWN 2079)," The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1725 (accessed on February 1, 2019).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Paul Cézanne / French, 1839–1906
- Date
- 1862
- Medium
- Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping and erasing, and graphite sketches and notations, on tan laid paper, laid down on heavy tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- 62.7 × 43.5 cm (24 11/16 × 17 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.
- 2013.910
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