Bathers at Asnières
Painting by Georges Seurat / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bathers at Asnières (French: Une Baignade, Asnières) is an 1884 oil on canvas painting by French artist Georges Pierre Seurat, the first of his two masterpieces on the monumental scale. The canvas is of a suburban, placid Parisian riverside scene. Isolated figures, with their clothes piled sculpturally on the riverbank, together with trees, austere boundary walls and buildings, and the River Seine are presented in a formal layout. A combination of complex brushstroke techniques and a meticulous application of contemporary color theory bring to the composition a sense of gentle vibrancy and timelessness.
Bathers at Asnières | |
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Artist | Georges-Pierre Seurat |
Year | 1884 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Movement | Post Impressionism |
Dimensions | 201 cm × 301 cm (79 in × 118 in) |
Location | National Gallery, London |
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). An appreciation of the piece's merits grew during the twentieth century; today it hangs in the National Gallery, London, where it is considered a highlight of the gallery’s collection of paintings.[1]