Paul Cezanne

The Large Bathers

US$ 651.00

Nude figures are arranged beneath arching trees that frame them into a triangle, the bodies simplified almost to the point of distortion so that they fit the architecture of the composition. Cezanne worked on this canvas for around seven years and left it unfinished at his death. It is the largest and most ambitious of his bather pictures and a direct precedent for Picasso’s Demoiselles.

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Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) spent his career trying to rebuild painting from the ground up, treating a canvas as a constructed system of colour planes rather than a window onto a scene. The bather compositions occupied him for decades and were painted almost entirely from memory and old drawings rather than from models. Both Picasso and Matisse regarded him as the point from which modern painting begins.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 46 × 38 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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