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1934, Mark Rothko, The Bathers [watercolor] -- National Gallery of Art (Washington)
From the museum label: In the summer of 1934, Rothko and his wife, Edith Sachar, vacationed in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with their friends Milton and Sally Avery and Adolph and Esther Gottlieb. The result of this trip was a series of beach scenes that reflects Rothko's admiration for the bathers of Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse. With their high horizons and statuesque anatomies, however, Rothko's watercolors also follow the example set by Avery -- an older artist and mentor-in paintings like Bathers, Coney Island. Rothko himself appears in that work, wearing white and a visor.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper.
1934, Mark Rothko, The Bathers [watercolor] -- National Gallery of Art (Washington)
From the museum label: In the summer of 1934, Rothko and his wife, Edith Sachar, vacationed in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with their friends Milton and Sally Avery and Adolph and Esther Gottlieb. The result of this trip was a series of beach scenes that reflects Rothko's admiration for the bathers of Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse. With their high horizons and statuesque anatomies, however, Rothko's watercolors also follow the example set by Avery -- an older artist and mentor-in paintings like Bathers, Coney Island. Rothko himself appears in that work, wearing white and a visor.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper.