After 1918 most of the Cubist artists and sculptors entered a period of transition, as they carried out their formal experiments to their logical conclusions and at the same time came under the spell of the classicizing trend which Picasso had set in motion. Baigneuse is a variation on a theme Lipchitzp had been working on since 1915. The complexity of the surface planes has an almost baroque quality which is also apparent in Harlequin with Accordian from the same year. By 1920 Lipchitz began to simplify the surfaces of his figures into more solid, rectangular masses, an approach which is evident in Man with Guitar. In 1923-1925 Lipchitz modified his monumental Bather, standing 80 inches high. It sums up his career as a cubist sculptor, although he claimed never to have abandoned cubism after this date. "It was no longer necessary for me to concentrate on the vocabulary of forms...I could move on to a sculpture of themes and ideas." (J. Lipchitz, My Life in Sculpture, New York, 1972, p. 74)