Bathers Playing with a Crab

c. 1897

Current Collection

Cleveland, United States

Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 54.6 × 65.7 cm
Status: In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID: C24-109874

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.

Provenance

Wade Fund, 1939.269

Registry history

c. 1897 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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