LIEBERMANN, Max
(b. 1847, Berlin, d. 1935, Berlin)

Boys Bathing

1898
Oil on canvas, 113 x 152 cm
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

The lightening of Liebermann's palette in the 1890s and his more rapid completion of work brought him closer to the French. Degas praised the Boys Bathing in 1898, and their respect was mutual, the same year Liebermann published an article on Degas in the periodical "Pan."