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Although it looks like a complete work, Bather and Rocks is a section of a much larger mural. At the time he painted it, Paul Cézanne was living in an 18th-century mansion in southern France. The artist covered a wall of its grand salon with a landscape that included this figure in the foreground. In 1907, the year after Cézanne’s death, this portion of the painting was detached from the wall, transferred to canvas, and sold. Even as a fragment, Bather and Rocks is a work of remarkable power and vigor. Painted with an almost violent energy, the heavily muscled nude faces a massive rock, which he seems to be holding up against the force of the rushing water.

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Details

  • Title: Bather and Rocks
  • Creator: Paul Cezanne
  • Creator Lifespan: 1839/1906
  • Creator Nationality: French
  • Creator Gender: Male
  • Creator Death Place: Aix-en-Provence, France
  • Creator Birth Place: Aix-en-Provence, France
  • Date Created: circa 1860-1866
  • Location Created: Aix-en-Provence, France
  • Provenance: The artist, Jan de Bouffan (near Aix-en-Provence), ca. 1864/68-1899; Louis Granel, Jas de Bouffan, 1899-1907; Josse Hessel, Paris, 1907; Georges Bernheim, Paris; Alphonse Kahn, Saint-Germain-en-Laye; Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, by 1952; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York; Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to the Chrysler Museum of Norfolk, 1971.
  • Physical Dimensions: 66 x 41 1/2 in. (167.6 x 105.4 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
  • Type: Painting
  • Medium: Oil on cavnas, transferred from plaster

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