#fredericbazille

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Summer Scene by Bazille

An 1869 oil on canvas, Summer Scene (aka Bathers), by Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870), the French impressionist painter. Bazille's innovation here is to take the traditional study of the male nude and make it into a contemporary scene of weekend bathers. His treatment of light and bright contrasting colours are other innovations. (Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, USA)

Image by Fogg Art Museum

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Flowers, 1868, Frederic Bazille

Medium: oil,canvas

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Pierre Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille, 1867

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La robe rose (1864) – Frédéric Bazille 

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The Pink Dress, 1864, Frederic Bazille

Medium: oil,canvas

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Frédéric Bazille, Paesaggio a Chailly, 1865, olio su tela, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago

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A pile of old New Yorkers appeared on the kitchen table last week, and in among the little illustration-per-page treats and wonderfully Manhattan cartoons I discovered Frédéric Bazille. Like his younger contemporary Caillebotte, he left a tantalisingly small portfolio of paintings. He was friends with Monet, Renoir and Sisley; he posed for Manet’s Le Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe, and Monet painted a portrait of Bazille’s 6′2″ frame into the picture of friends in his studio. His pictures experiment with breaking the same conventions - by choosing contemporary subjects instead of history or allegory, and painting nature outdoors instead of in, to capture the true effect of light. They remind you how these art students had to wrestle with both the stultifying conservatism of the Paris Academy and the invention of photography. Bazille painted the world outside his head - his studio, landscapes that look like snapshots, his friends (eg Monet recuperating after getting hit on the leg by an early, metal, frisbee) and fabulous flower still-lifes. And then at 28, he volunteered, naïvely and patriotically, for the 1870 Franco-Prussian war, telling friends “I won’t get killed, I’ve got so many things I want to do” and was shot dead two weeks later.

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Reclining Nude, Frederic Bazille