In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
A nude sits in a lush grove dotted with flowers in this rapidly brushed image, which Renoir painted near the end of his life. Unlike his early Bather (c. 1875), at the center of this gallery wall, this late nude issues from the realm of fantasy—the fantasy of a female body whose sensuality is natural and unthreatening. Renoir reinforced this idea in the pictorial structure, rhyming the figure's bodily contours with the curves of the foliage and repeating the pinks of her flesh in the flowers.
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Auguste Renoir — Nude
Jules Pascin — Seated Girl in Chemise (Jeune fille assise en
Jules Pascin — Nude Seated on a Chair
Jules Pascin — Seated Figure (Jeune fille assise)
André Derain — Nude
William Glackens — Sleeping Girl
Auguste Renoir — Young Girl Reading
Jules Pascin — Standing Nude in the Studio (Nu debout à l'at
Paul Cézanne — Seated Bather
Théo van Rysselberghe — Nude with agave
Edvard Munch — Nude Half Figure
Pierre Bonnard — Tall nude
