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Bonnard found himself unable to leave Marthe, his lifelong companion, and Renée killed herself in despair.
The usual line is that Marthe, paranoid and neurotic, had a mania for cleanliness.
Sarah Whitfield (who installed the show for its previous run at London's Tate Gallery), while not denying the compulsive nature of Marthe's bathing, has suggested that hydropathy was a popular treatment for such ailments as tubercular laryngitis, which Marthe suffered from and eventually, in 1942, died of.
All three late paintings of Marthe in the bath--considered by many to be Bonnard's crowning achievements--are on view at MoMA.
In some of his bathroom scenes of Marthe, Bonnard marks his own voyeuristic presence at the margins--a knee jutting into the canvas here, a hazy profile there.