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Paul Cézanne, The Large Bathers, 1898-1906, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Cézanne worked on The Large Bathers, now owned by the Philadelphia Art Museum, during the last 8 years of his life.  He did about 200 paintings of bathers, and another one in the National Gallery of London is also called Large Bathers. Its French name, Les grandes baigneuses, pays homages to the grandest of Cézanne's compositions of this subject, which may be his final statement of the theme as well.  To me it seems truest of an Arcadian dream, as witnessed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's recent exhibition.
The composition was clearly important to Cézanne in the search to find his truth. Through making art, he explored, subjectively, that which is true and everlasting in nature and in human existence.  In his early paintings he used heavy brushwork, but as time went on he thinned the paint and applied it tentatively, as if his vision was changing. Planes of various colors overlap, but outlining shapes brought transient visions back to clarity. Cézanne worked with the Impres
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File:Les Grandes Baigneuses, par Paul Cézanne, Yorck.jpg

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Title

Français : Les Grandes Baigneuses

English: The Large Bathers

Deutsch: Die großen Badenden

Series titleBaigneuses (Bathers) Object typepainting Genregenre art Date circa 1906

date QS:P571,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902

Mediumoil on canvas

medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259

Dimensions height: 208 cm (81.8 in); width: 249 cm (98 in)

dimensions QS:P2048,208U174728

dimensions QS:P2049,249U174728

Collection

Deutsch: Museum of Art

Current location

Français : Philadelphie

English: Philadelphia

Deutsch: Philadelphia

Accession number

W1937-1-1

ReferencesAuthority fileSource/PhotographerThe Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202. Permission
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The Bathers (Cézanne)

Painting by Paul Cézanne

For other uses, see The Bathers.

The Bathers (French: Les Grandes Baigneuses) is an oil painting by French artist Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) first exhibited in 1906. The painting, which is exhibited in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is the largest of a series of Bather paintings by Cézanne; the others are in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, National Gallery, London, the Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania, and the Art Institute of Chicago.[1][2][3][4] Occasionally referred to as the Big Bathers or Large Bathers to distinguish it from the smaller works, the painting is considered one of the masterpieces of modern art,[2][5] and is often considered Cézanne's finest work.[6] The painting was featured in the 1980 BBC Two series 100 Great Paintings.

Cézanne worked on the painting for seven years, and it remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1906.[7]

The painting was purchased in 1937 for $110,000 with funds from a trus

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