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Seurat completed the painting of Bathers at Asnières in 1884, at 24 years old. He applied to the jury of the Salon of the same year to have the work exhibited there, only to be rejected. The Bathers continued to puzzle many of Seurat’s contemporaries, and the picture would only be widely acclaimed many years after the artist's death (age 31).
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A River Bank (The Seine at Asnières) [53] The National Gallery, London 078 15.9 × 25 More images: 1883 Houses on the banks of the Seine [54] Private Collection 079 15.7 × 25.1 More images: 1883 Boat by the Bank, Asnieres [55] Courtauld Institute of Art, London 080 15 × 24 More images: 1883 Fishermen on the banks of the Seine [56] Musée d ...
Seurat's painting was a mirror impression of his own painting, Bathers at Asnières, completed shortly before, in 1884. Whereas the bathers in that earlier painting are doused in light, almost every figure on La Grande Jatte appears to be cast in shadow, either under trees or an umbrella, or from another person. For Parisians, Sunday was the ...
Bathers at Asnières, 1884, oil on canvas, 201 × 301 cm, National Gallery, London. He spent 1883 working on his first major painting – a large canvas titled Bathers at Asnières, [16] a monumental work showing young men relaxing by the Seine in a working-class suburb of Paris. [17]
The Bathers", or in French "Les Baigneuses", can refer to the following artworks: Bathers at Asnières , a painting by Georges Seurat in 1883 Les Grandes Baigneuses (Renoir) , by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1887
Seurat's Bathers Asnières uses similar symbolism to show the bathers removing their everyday identities to step into the momentary sunlight. [70] The bathers in Thomas Eakins' The Swimming Hole each represent different stages in the artist's life. He prepared for this canvas by taking multiple photographs of his students frolicking at this ...
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