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  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
    Feb 25, 1841 – Dec 3, 1919
  • Blonde Bather - Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau", he was noted for his radiant, intimate paintings, particularly of the female nude.
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  • 1881
    Oil on canvas
    81.8 x 65.7 cm
    Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark, 1926
    1955.609.

    While in Italy in 1881, Renoir was influenced by the work of ancient Roman and Italian Renaissance art. Inspired by these masters Renoir painted Blonde Bather, an attempt to give precise definition of form and solidity to a modern subject. Placed before a fluidly painted landscape--intended to evoke the coastline of Naples--the monumental nude assumes a gravity and physical presence new to Renoir's figure painting.
    The core of the paintings collection is a large suite of Impressionist works assembled by Sterling and Francine Clark over a period of four decades. In acquiring Impressionist art, the Clarks preferred the sort of pleasing pictures-sun-dappled landscapes, portraits and nudes of young women, and still lifes-that best suited the domestic spaces of their homes. Pierre-Auguste Renoir remained for them the quintessential Impressionist, and they acquired more than 35 of his paintings. Indeed, many of the more rigorous examples-Monet's Rouen Cathedral and Pissarro's Port of Rouen-as well as later works by Gauguin and Bonnard, were purchased by the Institute in more recent years.

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Other paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir:

Berthe Morisot and Her Daughter Julie Manet
Berthe Morisot and Her Daughter Julie Manet
Blond in a Straw Hat
Blond in a Straw Hat
Boating at Argenteuil
Boating at Argenteuil
Bougival
Bougival
Pierre-Auguste RenoirBorn in Limoges, Renoir moved to Paris and began his career as an apprentice painter in a porcelain manufacturing plant. His formal studies began at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1862 and continued at Gleyre's studio where he painted with fellow Impressionists, Sisley and Monet. Renoir's early paintings demonstrate his love of 18th Century French painting as well as the influence of Courbet and Delacroix.

The artist's portraits of women, often engaged in mundane daily activities, demonstrate his skill as a colorist. Working on a small scale, the artist used the subtleties of light and color to model his subjects. In the first years of the 20th Century, Renoir, encumbered by the effects of rheumatism, retreated to his home in the south of France where he increasingly turned to painting a favored subject: the female nude. These sensitive renderings, widely regarded as among the artist's finest works, represent a stylistic departure from Renoir's earlier paintings, evoking the nudes of the classical world.