''After Cezanne'' is a large irregular shaped obtuse painting begun in 1999 and completed in 2000 by the British artist

Lucian Freud Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. His early career as a painter was inf ...

. 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. 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 ''L'Après-midi à Naples'' (English: ''Afternoon in Naples'') is an oil-on-canvas painting executed c. 1875 by the French artist Paul Cézanne. The work is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. The art ...

'' (; circa 1875) by the French

Post-Impressionist Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction a ...

painter

Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century a ...

. In 2001 the work was purchased by the

National Gallery of Australia The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), formerly the Australian National Gallery, is the national art museum of Australia as well as one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art. Located in Canberra in th ...

Canberra Canberra ( ; ) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the Federation of Australia, federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's list of cities in Australia, largest in ...

, which also owns Cézanne's ''L'Après-midi à Naples'', for $7.4 million.

References

2000 paintings Paintings by Lucian Freud Collection of the National Gallery of Australia Nude paintings of women {{21C-painting-stub