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PAUL CÉZANNE Les Baigneurs (petite planche).
Lithograph on thin, laid Chine volant, circa 1897. 220x295 mm; 8 1/2x11 3/4 inches, full margins. Cherpin's first state (of 2), Druick's first state (of 4), before the color additions and with the figures in silhouette. Edition of approximately only 10. A superb impression of this extremely scarce lithograph.
Beginning with Cézanne's (1839-1906) first representation of the subject in the 1870s, Les Baigneurs was a theme that the artist revisited throughout his oeuvre. He would rarely work with live models, and drafted his scenes of nudes in landscapes partly from imagination and partly from art historical traditions that had been established by masters such as Titian (1488-1576), Giorgione (1477-1510) and Poussin (1594-1665). Cézanne imbued his bathers with a timeless quality, and created a new paradigm for representing the human figure, which persisted throughout the 20th century. Oil paintings of this subject from the same time period can be seen at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. Cherpin 6.
