After Cézanne

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After Cézanne
After Cezanne - Lucian Freud.jpg
Artist Lucian Freud
Year1999–2000
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions232.2 cm× 232.2 cm× 16 cm(91.4 in× 91.4 in× 6.3 in)
Weight165 kg
Location National Gallery of Australia
Accession2001.36

After Cezanne is a large, irregular shaped, obtuse painting done in oils on canvas, begun in 1999 and completed in 2000 by the British artist Lucian Freud. [1] The top left section of this painting has been 'grafted' on to the main section below, and closer inspection reveals a horizontal line where these two sections were joined. [2]

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The crease where the two parts of the painting were joined is visible as a faint horizontal line running through the woman just above the tray she is carrying. After Cezanne - Lucian Freud (detail of extended canvas).jpg
The crease where the two parts of the painting were joined is visible as a faint horizontal line running through the woman just above the tray she is carrying.

The painting is one in a select group of canvases where Freud engages in a dialogue with past masters, this work being a variation on a theme of the work L'Après-midi à Naples ('Afternoon in Naples'; circa 1875) by the French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne. [1]

In 2001 the work was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, which also owns Cézanne's L'Après-midi à Naples, [3] for $7.4 million. [4] [5] The decision was somewhat controversial at the time, but this perception changed in 2008, when Freud's painting Benefits Supervisor Sleeping sold for "just under [...] $35 million." [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Lucian Freud | After Cezanne". nga.gov.au. Archived from the original on 19 April 2021. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  2. ↑ "Lucian Freud - After Cézanne". National Gallery of Australia. Archived from the original on 23 December 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  3. ↑ "International Paintings and Sculpture | l'Après-midi à Naples [Afternoon in Naples]". Archived from the original on 25 April 2021. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  4. ↑ ""AFTER CEZANNE" (review)". www.abc.net.au.[ permanent dead link ]
  5. ↑ "Lucian Freud 1922 - 2011". 31 July 2011.
  6. ↑ Eleven, Beck (15 May 2008). "Freud sleeper the stuff of dreams". The Age. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
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