Group of Bathers (Groupe de baigneurs)

Discussion

FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

Cézanne's depictions of male bathers from the 1890s may evoke the artist's memories from his youth of swimming with friends in the Provencal countryside. These bathers, outlined in blue and with flecks of coral flesh tones, exemplify the brighter palette of this era as compared with the artist's earthier green-and-ocher bather paintings from the 1870s. The figures here are also more lithesome than his stocky early bathers; they hew more closely to the proportions of the ancient Greek sculptures that inspired their poses.

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