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'''''Les Baigneuses''''' (also known as '''''The Bathers'''''), is an large oil painting created in 1912 by the French artist, theorist and writer '''[[Albert Gleizes]]''' (1881–1953). It was first exhibited at the ''[[Société des Artistes Indépendants|Salon des Indépendants]]'' in Paris during the spring of 1912, and reproduced in ''Du «Cubisme»'', written by Albert Gleizes and [[Jean Metzinger]] the same year: the first and only manifesto on [[Cubism]]. ''Les Baigneuses'', while still 'readable' in the [[Figurative art|figurative]] or [[Representation (arts)|representational]] sense, exemplifies the mobile, dynamic fragmentation of form and multiple perspective characteristic of Cubism at the outset of 1912. Highly sophisticated, both in theory and in practice, this aspect of [[simultaneity]] would soon become identified with the practices of the [[Section d'Or]] group. Gleizes deploys these techniques in "a radical, personal and coherent manner". Purchased in 1937, the painting is exhibited in the permanent collection of the [[Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris]].
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'''''Les Baigneuses''''' (also known as '''''The Bathers'''''), is an large oil painting created in 1912 by the French artist, theorist and writer '''[[Albert Gleizes]]''' (1881–1953). It was first exhibited at the ''[[Société des Artistes Indépendants|Salon des Indépendants]]'' in Paris during the spring of 1912, and reproduced in ''Du «Cubisme»'', written by Albert Gleizes and [[Jean Metzinger]] the same year: the first and only manifesto on [[Cubism]]. ''Les Baigneuses'', while still 'readable' in the [[Figurative art|figurative]] or [[Representation (arts)|representational]] sense, exemplifies the mobile, dynamic fragmentation of form and multiple perspective characteristic of Cubism at the outset of 1912. Highly sophisticated, both in theory and in practice, this aspect of [[simultaneity]] would soon become identified with the practices of the [[Section d'Or]] group. Gleizes deploys these techniques in "a radical, personal and coherent manner". Purchased in 1937, the painting is exhibited in the permanent collection of the [[Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris]].
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