The Bathers Series — 36 x 48 in — Oak Park studio

They came from different paintings. Here, they share the afternoon.

A standing figure anchors a gathering of seated and reclining bodies beneath long, curving stems. Blue figures stretch across the foreground; purple hills and turquoise sky leave room beyond them. The composition holds together without asking everyone to strike the same pose.

After studying Cézanne’s life, biographies, and paintings, I brought characters from his works into this reconstructed collage. Oil pastels became part of the exchange, helping separate encounters find a shared setting. It is a conversation with an artist’s world, but not an attempt to leave that world untouched. The borrowed figures have new neighbors now, and a different arrangement of attention.

About the artist
Satish Prabhu brings travel, reading, and everyday encounters into a practice of reconstruction. Figures, interiors, and familiar objects become ways to explore memory, belonging, and the distance between people. This is an original, artist-created work, not an AI-generated image.

Dimensions: 36 x 48 in
Location: Oak Park studio

Related paintings
The Bathers: another reconstruction of figures in a shared space
The Beach House: another work made through a conversation with an earlier painter