Bathers on a Summer Evening

painting by Félix Vallotton

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Bathers on a Summer Evening is a painting by Swiss-born French artist Félix Vallotton, created in 1892–93. This large-scale work depicts women of various ages in different states of undress. When exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1893, it caused a stir due to its perceived eroticism. Vallotton, known for his distinctive woodcuts and paintings of nudes and interiors, was associated with the Nabis group, though he maintained a unique style that drew from Symbolism and Japanese printmaking.1

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…he completed in that period, Bathers on a Summer Evening (1892–93) attracted the most attention. That large-scale composition of women of various ages and in various stages of undress was exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in spring 1893, and it shocked the crowds with its eroticism.
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…he completed in that period, Bathers on a Summer Evening (1892–93) attracted the most attention. That large-scale composition of women of various ages and in various stages of undress was exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in spring 1893, and it shocked the crowds with its eroticism.
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