Alongside these works, the exhibition features a selection of new paintings that range from monumental nude figures to intimately scaled canvases that present details of bodily parts and facial features. (galleriesnow.net)
Commissioned to represent the seven ages of man, they consisted of 18 eight - foot sculptures of nude figures with chunky thighs, straight roman noses and pronounced musculature. (apollo-magazine.com)
In such works, Cézanne was reinterpreting a long tradition of paintings with nude figures in the landscape by artists such as Titian and Poussin. (nationalgallery.org.uk)