Baigneuses (Metzinger)

Baigneuses, also called Bathers, is a Proto-Cubist painting, now lost or missing, created circa 1908 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger. Possibly exhibited during the spring of 1908 at the Salon des Indépendants (n. 4243). This black-and-white image of Metzinger's painting, the only known photograph of the work, was reproduced in Gelett Burgess, The Wild Men of Paris, Architectural Record, May 1910. The painting was also reproduced in The New York Times, 8 October 1911, in an article titled The "Cubists" Dominate Paris' Fall Salon, and subtitled, Eccentric School of Painting Increases Its Vogue in the Current Art Exhibition - What Its Followers Attempt to Do.