Standing Bather, Seen from the Back
Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)1879-82
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
In the course of making an artwork, Paul Cezanne often significantly altered his original design. Someone, perhaps the artist, cut this canvas from a larger painting, retaining remnants of the other composition. In the lower-left corner, a series of blue lines can be read as the legs of a seated figure from knees to ankles; the body may have continued on an adjacent part of the canvas. These lines sit on top of the background foliage, indicating that Cezanne added this second figure after completing the first, presumably before changing his mind about the direction of the painting or moving on to another work.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 31.7 × 21.6 cm (12 1/2 × 8 1/2 in.)
Museum record · 2 owners · 3 exhibitions
Provenance
- Ambroise Vollard (died 1939), Paris, by 1931.
- Paul Guillaume (1891–1934), Paris; by descent to his widow, Domenica Guillaume (née Juliette Léonie Lacaze, later Mme Jean Walter, 1898–1977), Paris, until 1936; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey McCormick, Chicago, Jan. 1936; by descent to their son, Brooks McCormick (1917–2006), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2007.
Exhibitions
- Art Institute of Chicago, Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth, Feb. 14–Apr. 26, 2009.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Cezanne: The Drawings, June 6–Sept. 26, 2021.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Cezanne, May 15-Se, 2022; London, Tate, Oct. 5, 2022–Mar. 12, 2023.
