Linocut on paper
Tate Collection
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Bathers
Presented by the artist 1973
actions: postures and motions
adults
arm / arms raised
bank
bathing / swimming
female
leisure and pastimes
nudes
people
recreational activities
standing
water: inland
woman
paper print linocut
1 July 2005 – 30 September 2005
2005-09-30
1 July 2005 – 30 September 2005
2005-09-30
2005-07-01
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery (Bedford, UK)
http://www.cecilhigginsartgallery.org
2005-07-01
Angels in the Studio: The Women of the Slade School
Loan-out
15 September 2007 – 31 March 2009
2009-03-31
15 September 2007 – 31 March 2009
2009-03-31
2007-09-15
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2007-09-15
Bathers
Collection based display
1 January 2025 – 31 March 2026
2026-03-31
1 January 2025 – 30 April 2025
2025-04-30
2025-01-01
Royal West of England Academy (Bristol, UK)
1 May 2025 – 30 September 2025
2025-09-30
2025-05-01
Towner (Eastbourne, UK)
http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/
1 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
2026-03-31
2025-10-01
Leeds Art Gallery (Leeds, UK)
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/artgallery/
2025-01-01
Paule Vézelay: Living Lines
Loan-out
The Bathers
image: 267 × 235 mm
Presented by the artist 1973
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<b>Paule Vézelay b.1893</b>
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<p>Inscribed ‘The Bathers/No.7 of 25’ b.l. and ‘Paule Vézelay 1923’ b.r.<br/>Linocut, 10<b>½ x</b> 9<b>¼</b> (26<b>.</b>7 x 23<b>.</b>5).<br/>Presented by the artist 1973.</p>
<p>This linocut is one (No.7) of a single edition of twenty-five prints made in 1923. The original linoblock is in the artist’s possession. A print was shown at the Venice Biennale of 1924 under the title ‘Nudes’.</p>
<p>In a letter to the compiler (18 January 1974) the artist wrote: ‘The linocut “The Bathers” was made in London after bathing from the rocks of the Chàteau des Enfants and the Hôtel du Cap during a summer at Cap d’Antibes. At this period I had not forgotten the graphic works I had admired when I was still at school—such as the woodcuts in “Punch” by Charles Keene, Phil May, works by Rowlandson, and some lovely watercolours given to my grandmother by David Cox, and prints of George Morland. There was an old arcade which I visited from time to time where an aged man had many “unwanted treasures” in his dark shop; from him I purchased wonderful Flaxman prints to illustrate Dante Alighieri, “Sketches by Boz” with 40 illustrations by Cruikshank and other books of value’.</p>
<p>Published in<i> The Tate Gallery Report 1972–1974</i>, London 1975.</p>
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Catalogue entry
2012-07-27T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults arm / arms raised bank bathing / swimming female leisure and pastimes nudes people recreational activities standing water: inland woman