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Step back and let the canvas settle. Bathers at Asnieres — painted in 1884 — shows working-class men beside the Seine: horses in the shallows, a steamer past Clichy. Seurat was twenty-four when he built this three-metre canvas with deliberate dabs of colour, wanting light to be the subject.
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