Why it matters
Nude bathers in a landscape are broken into dynamic, fragmented forms seen from multiple viewpoints. It was reproduced in Du 'Cubisme', the first and only Cubist manifesto, written by Gleizes and Metzinger.
Did you know?
- It was painted in early 1912.
- It was shown at the Salon des Indépendants and the Section d'Or that year.
- Paris bought it in 1937.
Based on the Wikipedia article The Bathers (Gleizes) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
