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[The bathers] / P. Cézanne. – Vintage Wall Art

[The bathers] / P. Cézanne. — antique lithograph
[The bathers] / P. Cézanne.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [The bathers] / P. Cézanne., preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[The bathers] / P. Cézanne.

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Cézanne returned to the subject of bathers for most of his career, and this color lithograph shows the figures in a landscape setting that drew on the classical nudes he studied in the Louvre. The record dates it only to the 1890s, a decade when he was reworking the theme in oil and watercolor, pursuing a method of building form from patches of color rather than from line and shading. Printed images like this one carried his compositions to viewers who could not see the paintings, and they help explain why his late work came to shape modern art. Notice how the bodies seem to merge with the trees and earth around them.

Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
Notes[between 1890 and 1900]
SubjectsNudes--1890-1900. Bathing--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,267 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145744

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