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THE BATHER c.1891
ALBERT
MOORE
1841-1893
A
naked young woman, swimming on her back with her head, shoulders
and right knee above the surface. Impressionistic foliage
in right foreground. An inscription on the backboard, written
by Alfred Lys Baldry, reads "Moore showed me this when it
was just finished and told me that he did it from memory
of something he had seen - a girl bathing or swimming under
Hammersmith Bridge. The effect of the figure in the water
appealed to him as worthy of recording."
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34
THE BATHER c.1891
ALBERT
MOORE
1841-1893
Pastel
on grey paper, 32.4 x 17 (12.75 x 6.75)
Signed,
with anthemion (lower right)
Provenance:
unknown.
Exhibited:
Grafton Gallery, 1894, Commemorative Exhibition.
Literature:
Baldry, p.106.
R Asleson, Albert Moore, Phaidon Press Ltd, London, 2003, pp. 191/3, illustrated p.192.
A
naked young woman, swimming on her back with her head, shoulders
and right knee above the surface. Impressionistic foliage
in right foreground. An inscription on the backboard, written
by Alfred Lys Baldry, reads "Moore showed me this when it
was just finished and told me that he did it from memory of
something he had seen - a girl bathing or swimming under Hammersmith
Bridge. The effect of the figure in the water appealed to
him as worthy of recording."
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