After Cézanne

After Cézanne
Three nude people, two women and a man lay about in a rough or unfinished room. An ornate padded chair lays tipped over to the left of the scene, painted in detail but neglected by the characters. The painting is framed in gold, a custom-made frame to with an unusual extension at the top, to surround the part of the painting that was appended by the artist.
ArtistLucian 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
LocationNational 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]

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. ^ a b "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.
  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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