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The Bathers (band) "The Bathers" can refer to at least six different paintings. "The Bathers" is a
painting created byPierre-Auguste Renoir in1887 , a leading figure in the development of theImpressionist period.The other painting entitled, "The Bathers", was created in
1898 byPaul Gauguin , also a French artist, who began painting among the Impressionists, but who is considered aPost-Impressionist because he abandoned their style in favor of one with many other influences. On October 7, 2005 theNew York Times announced thatSteven A. Cohen had purchased Gauguin's "The Bathers" andvan Gogh 's "Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat " fromStephen A. Wynn for $100 million dollars.Fact|date=June 2007Paul Cézanne created three separate paintings known as "The Bathers". For more information, see "The Bathers (Cézanne) ".Jean Metzinger also created a work called "The Bathers", which is housed in thePhiladelphia Museum of Art .Anne Zehalka's photograph 'The Bathers' from her 1989 Series, Bondi: Playground of the Pacific
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