# Bather With Outstretched Arms (recto); Study of a Tree (verso), in Post-Impressionism

Paul Cézanne painted this in 1874/77, aged about 35. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> A nude bather stands with arms flung wide, sketched in graphite in the mid-1870s, a figure related to the bathers that Cézanne returned to throughout his career. He rarely worked from the nude model, relying instead on memory, earlier drawings and the study of art, and the figure has an awkward, expressive energy.

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## The work

- 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 and Watercolor
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.840
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Paul Cézanne](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/paul-cezanne), French, 1839–1906

Cézanne divided his life between Paris and his native Aix-en-Provence. Encouraged by his schoolfriend Émile Zola and later by Pissarro, with whom he painted at Pontoise and Auvers in the 1870s, he showed at the first and third Impressionist exhibitions.

13 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Paul Cézanne](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/paul-cezanne?hang=750) (13 works)
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