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The Bathers
Paul Gauguin1897
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: The Bathers
- Creator: Paul Gauguin
- Date Created: 1897
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 60.4 x 93.4 cm (23 3/4 x 36 3/4 in.) framed: 82 x 114.3 x 7.9 cm (32 5/16 x 45 x 3 1/8 in.)
- Provenance: Sold 30 October 1898 via George Daniel de Monfreid [1856-1929] to Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris;[1] sold November 1898 to Edgar Degas [1834-1917]; (Degas atelier sale I, Galerie George Petit, Paris, 26-27 March 1918, no. 47 as _Tahiti, paysage_, 93 x 61 cm. [dimensions reversed]); (Jos Hessel, Paris) and/or (Ambroise Vollard, Paris);[2] probably sold to Adolph Lewisohn [c. 1849-1938], New York, by 1921;[3] by inheritance to his son, Sam A. Lewisohn [1884-1951], New York; bequest 1951 to NGA. [1] In a letter from de Monfreid to Gauguin of 11 November 1898 (A. Joly-Segalen, ed., _Lettres de Gauguin à Daniel de Monfreid_, Paris, 1950: 209), de Monfreid discusses four paintings from the latest consignment he had received from Gauguin which he has just sold to Vollard. The NGA painting is described as: "2o Des femmes qui se baignent, dans un paysage papillotant, rappelant le petit panneau que vous avez donné (ou vendu) au Dr Gouzer. Une belle toile, entre parenthèses" ("2o Women bathing, in a shimmering landscape, which reminds me of the small panel you gave [or sold] to Dr. Gouzer. A lovely canvas, by the way). [2] For a complete description of the early provenance, see _Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde_, Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2006: no. 94. [3] The painting was lent by Lewisohn to a 1921 exhibition in New York.
- Medium: oil on canvas
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