"The Bathers", Paul Cezanne, 1899-1904
Paul Cezanne (French, 1839-1906)
Oil on canvas, 51.3 × 61.7 cm. Amy McCormick Memorial Collection.
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Through his studies of groups of bathers outdoors, Paul Cézanne reconceived a classical subject in a modern, pictorial idiom. Though clearly related, The Bathers is not a study for either of the monumental canvases of bather subjects that the artist left unfinished at his death; rather, it is an independent, exploratory work painted with a more spritely touch. For all its compositional complexity, it retains the lightness of a watercolor, with thin parallel strokes and dashes and areas of white-primed canvas showing through the paint.
-The Art Institute of Chicago
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