Paul Cézanne
The Bathers
Mary Louise Krumrine
with contributions by Gottfried Boehm
Christian Geelhaar
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The theme of the bathers fascinated Cézanne from 1870 until his death in 1906. He created masterpiece after masterpiece and the many studies that emerged from this period are exquisite works in themselves.
Paul Cézanne: The Bathers brings all these paintings and drawings together in one magnificently illustrated volume, the first to concentrate on this major theme which appeared in some 200 of Cézanne’s works. Relating these images to works of literature of the period, to Cézanne’s changing relationships with women and to the milieu of nineteenth-century France, the lively and original text provides a revealing portrait of the artist’s complex personality and artistic development. While the early bathers were based largely on scenes of everyday life, the later works became increasingly abstract, with deeper, more symbolic meanings which at first baffled the critics, yet fascinated his fellow painters. These paintings, now in the Kunstmuseum, Basel; the Musee d’Orsay, Paris; and the Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, are fully explored here.
More than 200 illustrations, many reproduced in colour for the first time, depict changes and developments in technique, colour and composition. A unique illustrated glossary lists each bather composition and documents how and when each figure entered a particular work.
Paul Cézanne: The Bathers is indispensable to anyone interested in the development of modern art. |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500973873 | | ISBN-13 978-0500973875 | | | | 28.8 x 25.0 cm | | Hardback | | 322pp | | 239 illustrations, 126 in colour | | First published 1990 | | | | £39.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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