Thursday, February 28, 2013

Paul Cézanne - Three Bathers [1879-82]


Cézanne devoted over two-hundred paintings, watercolours and drawings to the theme of bathing men and women. He started working with this subject in the late sixties and carried on developing it until 1906, sometimes taking several years to finish the largest paintings. As the compositions evolve, the descriptive elements disappear in favour of construction. The stocky figures become the members of a rigorously ordered pictorial assembly and not the representatives of corporeal beauty.

[Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York - Oil on canvas, 55 x 52 cm]
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