Female nudes gather on a riverbank beneath trees that lean together to form a tall arch. Cézanne worked on this, the largest of his Bathers, for about seven years, and it was still unfinished at his death in 1906. Its blocky, simplified bodies, built like his landscapes and still lifes, pointed the way to Cubism.
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The trunks on either side lean inward to form a great triangle, echoed by the poses of the bathers below. In places the pale ground shows through the thin paint.
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