| dc.creator | Bonnard, Pierre | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-09-25T13:08:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-09-25T13:08:35Z | |
| dc.identifier | 032823 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/21329 | en_US |
| dc.description | This is one of a series of paintings that Bonnard made of his wife Marthe in the bath. Though she was in her mid-fifties, the artist depicts her as a young woman. Marthe spent many hours in the bathroom: she may have had tuberculosis, for which water therapy was a popular treatment, or she may have had an obsessive neurosis. The bath, cut off at both ends, and the structure of the wall create a rigorously geometric composition. The effect is strangely lifeless, and almost tomb-like; as if the painting were a silent expression of sorrow for Marthe's plight.
(From the display caption August 2004) | en_US |
| dc.description | full view | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 86 x 120 cm (33.86 x 47.24 inches) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | oil paint | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | canvas | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 123962 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Bathers | en_US |
| dc.subject | Bathtubs | en_US |
| dc.subject | Water | en_US |
| dc.subject | Artists' spouses | en_US |
| dc.subject | Post-impressionism (Art) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Female nude in art | en_US |
| dc.subject | Painting, French --20th century | en_US |
| dc.title | The Bath | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Le Bain | en_US |
| dc.type | Image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | All rights reserved | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | Repository: Tate Modern (London, England) ID: N04495 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | French | en_US |
| vra.technique | painting (image-making) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | Oil painting | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | painter: Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867-1947) | en_US |
