Adolphe PETERELLE (1874-1947). The Bath. Oil on canvas signed lower right and countersigned on the back. Height : 117 cm - Width : 74 cm Note: Adolphe Pétérelle trained at the Beaux-Arts in Geneva before moving to Paris in 1891. He settled at the bateau lavoir in Montmartre before moving another studio in Montparnasse in 1908, where his neighbors included Amedeo Modigliani, Constantin Brancusi and the sculptor Joseph Bernard, who came to work alongside him in his studio on the theme of dance. He lost the use of one eye in the First World War, prompting him to use black to make extensive use of black in his painting. He became the painter of a muted, voluptuous chromaticism around bathers and female nudes, his favorite themes.