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    Bather With Outstretched Arms (recto); Study of a Tree (verso)
    Paul Cezanne. Bather With Outstretched Arms (recto); Study of a Tree (verso), 1874/77. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00006055

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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

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