After Cézanne
2000 painting by Lucian Freud
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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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| Artist | Lucian Freud |
| Year | 1999–2000 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 232.2 cm × 232.2 cm × 16 cm (91.4 in × 91.4 in × 6.3 in) |
| Weight | 165 kg |
| Location | National Gallery of Australia |
| Accession | 2001.36 |
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]
