The Bathers (Les Baigneuses au Repos)

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The Bathers (Les Baigneuses au Repos)

Artist Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906)

Dateabout 1898

Dimensions16 5/16 x 20 3/8 in. (41.4 x 51.8 cm)

MediumLithograph printed in colors

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1935.9

Not on View

Label TextCézanne had never created a replica of one of his own paintings until he made this four-color lithograph. It follows closely a painting from twenty years before which he had shown in the 1877 Impressionist exhibition. Cézanne’s paintings were hardly known at the time, but this was perhaps his most familiar work. He was little involved in printmaking, and this, his most ambitious endeavor in the genre, represents one of only eight prints he produced during his entire career. Encouraged by his dealer Ambroise Vollard during Vollard’s venture as an art publisher, Cézanne created this print for an issue of a Vollard publication, though one that came to fruition.Published ReferencesTOLEDO MUSEUM NEWS, New Series, Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer 1962, (also published as An Introduction to Prints), repr. p. 45.Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, The Modern Print, Feb.-Mar., 1959. The Toledo Museum of Art, What is Modern Art?, March 1960. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Graphic French Prints from the TMA, Feb 18 - May 15, 2005. Toledo Museum of Art, The Painter Was a Printmaker, June 23 - Sept. 9, 1984. Toledo Museum of Art, Strong Sensations: Impressionism and Symbolist Works on Paper, 1860-1900, April 23-June 20 2010 (no cat.). Toledo Museum of Art, Looks Good on Paper: Masterworks and Favorites, Oct. 10, 2014-Jan. 11, 2015.