The Bath

Spanning two juxtaposed panels, The Bath portrays a man reclined in water, cigarette in hand, his direct gaze confronting the viewer. Sean Rush Constructed a painting with confident, sweeping brushstrokes and an expressive palette of muted blues, grays, and warm ochres, the painting merges figuration with abstraction. The water and flesh dissolve into painterly strokes—gestural fragments that both reveal and obscure the subject, echoing the tension between representation and form.