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Bather With Outstretched Arms (recto); Study of a Tree (verso)
by Paul Cezanne
Provenance
The artist's son, Paul Cézanne (1872-1947), Paris, to at least 1936 [Basel 1936]. Jacques Dubourg (1897–1981), Paris; by descent. Sold, Christie's, London, Feb. 5, 2004, lot 312, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
Paris, Galerie Renou and Colle, Aquarelles et baignades de Cézanne, 1935. Basel, Kunsthalle, Paul Cézanne, 1936, cat. 128. Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 71 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, pp. 72-73, fig. 7, p. 141, GC 93, traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Cezanne", May 11 - September 5, 2022, p. 164, cat. 97 (ill.), cat. by Achim Borchardt-Hume, Gloria Groom, et. al.
Publications
Else Cassirer, Künstlerbriefe aus dem neunzehnten Jahrhundert (B. Cassirer, 1923), p. 602 (ill.). Georges Rivière, Le Maître Paul Cézanne (H. Floury, 1923), p. 118 (ill.). Lionello Venturi, Cézanne: Son art, son oeuvre (P. Rosenberg, 1936), vol. 1, no. 1260; vol. 2, pl. 347. Theodore Reff, "Cézanne's Bather with Outstretched Arms,” Gazette des beaux-arts 59 (Mar. 1962), pp. 173–90, esp. p. 188 n. 13a. Adrien Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York Graphic Society, 1973), vol. 1, no. 385; vol. 2, pl. 385. Guila Ballas, Cézanne: Baigneuses et baigneurs: Thème et composition (Dyonon/Adam Biro, 2002), p. 318 n. 43.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Paul Cézanne / French, 1839–1906
- Date
- 1874/77
- Medium
- Graphite on cream laid paper (pieced)
- Dimensions
- 17.9 × 11.1 cm (7 1/16 × 4 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.840
More by Paul Cezanne in museum collections
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