Teenage boys trying to impress a sunbathing girl in a swimming pool on Coney Island, New York, 1963.
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Henri Matisse. The Swimming Pool, 1952
Gouache on paper, cut and pasted, on painted paper. Overall 73 x 647”
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Duncan Grant
"Boys Bathing" 1952
gouache, charcoal, pencil and chalk on paper
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Leon Kossoff
"Children's Swimming Pool" 1970-72
charcoal with oil on paper
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Leon Kossoff, Children's Swimming Pool, Autumn Afternoon, 1971
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Maria Svarbova - from Swimming Pool series, 2014
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Maria Svarbova, Swimming Pool, 2014
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David Hockney - Pool and Steps - 1971
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In case you haven't figured it out, it's turning cold in California
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So obviously, I screwed up with the title for this one:
David Hockney, Peter Getting out of Nick's Pool, 1966
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So you get another one:
David Hockney, A Bigger Splash, 1967
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Thank you so much for curating this contextually rich collection of images.
I've enjoyed teasing out some of the threads.
Impressed with how JG Ballard drops into the empty swimming pools.
Also in how artists exploit the swimming pool's compositional opportunities.
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