A reproduction of "A Bathing Group" of 1914 by Henry Scott Tuke. Fascinated by the luminous effects of sunlight on bodies and on water, Tuke commented that he liked to work in the open air, on ‘quiet beaches, some of them hardly accessible by boat, where one may paint from the life model undisturbed’. He continued to work in this fashion for much of his life, painting images of male nudes by the sea and on boats — swimming, diving and lounging around.

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