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a late summer afternoon, reflected off the sea, turns everything into a
kind of ritual or theater. His beach scenes are as still and harmoniously
organized as Classical friezes, but assertively about the present day.
Rachel Rickert
observes women in private moments with no less acu-
ity or sympathy than Bonnard did, in his celebrated images of Marthe
bathing or drying herself, but the fact that Rickert is female and het-
Graham Nickson
Edge Bathers
,
1983–2005
Acrylic on canvas,
120
x
267
inches (
304
.
8
x
678
.
2
cm.)
Image courtesy of The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation Inc.