You can find The Bathers on the Melbourne Slope in Cromer
127.2 × 196.1 cm Purchased with a special grant and the aid of the Max Rayne Foundation, 1964 © National Gallery London
Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses), 1894
Paul Cézanne
Oil on canvas 127.2 × 196.1 cm
Around 200 of Cézanne’s works depict male and female nude bathers, either singly or in groups, in a landscape. This large painting is one of three pictures of female bathers that Cézanne worked on during the final decade of his life. They represent the culmination of his lifelong investigation of this subject and the climax of his entire career, and were hugely influential on early twentieth-century art.
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Paul Cézanne
Cézanne associated with the Impressionists, but always had other aims. He said that his ambition was to ‘make of Impressionism something solid and durable like the art of museums’. Cézanne’s work was discovered by the Paris avant-garde during the 1890s. It had a significant influence on Picasso and the development of 20th-century art.
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