Paul Cézanne: The Large Bathers (Les Grandes baigneuses), Paul Cézanne, 1895–1906, Oil on canvas, Note: This work has been temporarily removed from display for technical study and conservation treatment. Funding for its conservation was generously provided through a grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project. This is one of three monumental bathing scenes that Cézanne produced at the very end of his career. Thick with paint, the canvas seems to have occupied him, on and off, for about ten years, between 1895 and 1906. The theme of bathers in a landscape originated in the Renaissan

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Photo credit: © Gibon Art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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