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The Bathers (Cézanne)

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1215: 264: 283: 301: 320: 36: 242: 220:, and that the money could therefore have been better spent elsewhere. While Cézanne's drawing ability has always been criticized, a critic once said that he "made the ineptly drawn Bathers a warm evocation of leisurely summer bliss." The painting was featured in the 1980 151:
Cézanne worked on the painting for seven years, and it remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1906. The painting was purchased in 1937 for $ 110,000 with funds from a trust fund for the Philadelphia Museum of Art by their major benefactor,
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give the painting tension and density. It is exceptional among his work in symmetrical dimensions, with the adaptation of the nude forms to the triangular pattern of the trees and river. Using the same technique as employed in painting
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and give a timeless quality to his work, and in so doing paved the way for future artists to disregard current trends and paint pieces that would appeal equally to all generations. The abstract nude females present in
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to distinguish it from the smaller works, the painting is considered one of the masterpieces of modern art, and is often considered Cézanne's finest work.
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The purchase of the painting, while generally praised, was nevertheless questioned by
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210.5 cm × 250.8 cm (82.9 in × 98.7 in)
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Les Demoiselles D'Avignon: Picasso's influences in the creation of a masterwork
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Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley
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Index

The Bathers

Paul Cézanne
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia
oil painting
Paul Cézanne
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
National Gallery, London
Barnes Foundation
Art Institute of Chicago
Joseph E. Widener
Leo Stein
fads
landscapes
still lifes
Titian
Peter Paul Rubens
Picasso
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
The Philadelphia Record
bathtubs
BBC Two
100 Great Paintings
The Large Bathers, 1895–1906. Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania
Barnes Foundation
Merion, Pennsylvania
Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses), 1894–1905. National Gallery, London
National Gallery

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