Bathers Playing with a Crab

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Bathers Playing with a Crab

Pierre-Auguste RenoirLinkedCulture matchlcp-3c5e45018677

Date
c. 1897
Medium
oil on fabric
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
118159

After viewing Renaissance paintings on a trip to Italy in 1881, Renoir attempted to bring greater order and stability to Impressionism by merging flickering light effects with solid forms. He conveyed this new ambition in a series of paintings of nude bathers, a subject that preoccupied him from 1883 until his death in 1919. Avant-garde artists of the 20th century admired his ability to blend modernist and classicizing tendencies.

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Credit line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance
[Galerie Georges Bernheim, Paris.] | Ralph M. Coe, Cleveland, OH, purchased on February 18, 1920 | The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, purchased on May 29, 1939

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