Pre-War Figurative Art
(1922 - 1950)
Bathing woman (1927)
Information
Signature
Signed bottom left: Cserepes 1927
Exhibited
103th Group exhibition of Count Gyula Batthyány, István Cserepes, Tibor Gallé, Béla Iványi-Grünwald, Imre Nagy, Gyula Rudnay, Ferenc Sidló
1929. február - március
Ernst Múzeum
Budapest
76th Group exhibition: works by István Cserepes, Antal Jancsek, Ferenc Csejthey, Vilmos Kőrössy, Anna Gedőné Lukács, Róbert W. Májerszky
1932. február
Nemzeti Szalon
Budapest
About
The Bathing woman depicts a naked figure stepping out from the tub just after bathing and reaching for her towel. The female figure turns her back to the observer, who catches her in an intimate moment. The playfulness of the image is given by its bright colors and meticulous patterns on the surfaces. Its use of color is characterized by fresh, dynamic, vibrant paint colors, and its elaboration is sketchy.
The style of the painting is reminiscent of the paintings of István Csók and János Vaszary in the 1920s and 1930s, associated with the École de Paris. Vaszary was also inspired by this theme: he made a similar oil composition entitled Before Bathing. Another painting, Morning Lights, follows the same dynamic tonal scale.
Cserepes' Bathing Woman presumably included in the group exhibition of the Ernst Museum in November 1932, in which he exhibited it with Adolf Fényes, István Zádor and Béla Kontuly (cat. 146.). The theme inspired Cserepes several times: in 1931 he made a graphic and then a watercolor painting.
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