Oil paint on board
Tate Collection
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C Frank Stoop
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/georges-braque-803" aria-label="More by Georges Braque" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Georges Braque</a>
Bather
Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933
adults
bathing / swimming
female
foliage
leisure and pastimes
nudes
people
plants and flowers
recreational activities
woman
<p>In Europe the First World War was followed by a 'return to order' movement. In these years Braque, like many avant-garde artists of his generation, looked to classical models for inspiration. However, although the figure's statuesque proportions, her pose and drapes, recall ancient Greek and Roman prototypes, the painting is executed in a non-classical manner, with loosely undulating, sometimes seemingly tentative, lines and undefined areas of colour. The tension between the work's traditional subject matter and its modern style is heightened by the stark contrasts of the white drapery and green foliage against the black background, which give the work a strange, almost hallucinatory quality.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint board
21 June 2003 – 28 August 2007
2007-08-28
21 June 2003 – 28 August 2007
2007-08-28
2003-06-21
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2003-06-21
International Modern Art
Collection based display
23 November 2011 – 27 September 2015
2015-09-27
23 November 2011 – 27 September 2015
2015-09-27
2011-11-23
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2011-11-23
The Reclining Nude
Collection based display
5 June 2018 – 23 September 2018
2018-09-23
5 June 2018 – 23 September 2018
2018-09-23
2018-06-05
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2018-06-05
Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One
Exhibition
Bather
support: 670 × 543 mm
Bequeathed by <a href="/search?gid=999999963" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">C. Frank Stoop</a> 1933
<p>In Europe the First World War was followed by a '<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/return-to-order" title="Glossary definition for 'Return to Order'"><span>return to order</span></a>' movement. In these years Braque, like many <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/avant-garde" title="Glossary definition for 'Avant-garde'"><span>avant-garde</span></a> artists of his generation, looked to <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/classicism" title="Glossary definition for 'Classicism'"><span>classical</span></a> models for inspiration. However, although the figure's statuesque <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/proportion" title="Glossary definition for 'Proportion'"><span>proportions</span></a>, her pose and drapes, recall ancient Greek and Roman prototypes, the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> is executed in a non-classical manner, with loosely undulating, sometimes seemingly tentative, lines and undefined areas of colour. The tension between the work's traditional subject matter and its modern style is heightened by the stark contrasts of the white drapery and green foliage against the black background, which give the work a strange, almost hallucinatory quality.</p>
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<p><b>Georges Braque</b><span> 1882-1963 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/braque-bather-n04722" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04722</span></a> </span><b>Baigneuse</b><span>
(Bather) 1925 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'G Braque | 25' b.l.</span>
<br/><span>Oil on laminated board, 26 3/8 x 21 3/8 (67 x 54.5)</span>
<br/><span>Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
With Paul Rosenberg, Paris (purchased from the artist); C. Frank Stoop, London</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Oeuvres de Braque</i><span>, Paul Rosenberg, Paris, March 1926 (21) as 'Baigneuse' 1925; </span><i>Braque and Rouault</i><span>, Tate Gallery, April-May 1946 (65); </span><i>Georges Braque</i><span>, Kunsthalle, Basle, April-May 1960 (57)</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
George Isarlov, 'Georges Braque' in </span><i>Orbes</i><span>, No.3, Spring 1932, p.91, No.376 as 'Baigneuse'; Nicole S. Mangin, </span><i>Catalogue de l'Oeuvre de Georges Braque: Peintures 1924-1927</i><span> (Paris 1968), p.43, repr. as 'Baigneuse'; Marco Valsecchi and Massimo Carrà, </span><i>L'Opera Completa di Braque 1908-1929</i><span> (Milan 1971), No.289, p.99, repr. p.99 and pl.IL in colour</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
</span><i>Cahiers d'Art</i><span>, 1927, p.7 </span>
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<p><span>Between 1922 and 1926, Braque executed a series of oil <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> and large <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> of nudes of a semi-<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/classicism" title="Glossary definition for 'Classicism'"><span>classical</span></a> character. This picture, in which the figure is partly wrapped in a towel, has been known in recent years as 'Nude', but was originally exhibited as 'Bather'. It was probably painted later than [</span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/N04166" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'N04166');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>N04166</span></a><span>], as it had the Paul Rosenberg photo number 1232 as against 1177. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.79, reproduced p.79 </span>
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-15T00:00:00
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adults bathing / swimming female foliage leisure and pastimes nudes people plants and flowers recreational activities woman