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Bathers Playing with a Crab
Pierre-Auguste Renoirc. 1897
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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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- Title: Bathers Playing with a Crab
- Creator: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
- Date Created: c. 1897
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 75.5 x 85.5 x 10 cm (29 3/4 x 33 11/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 54.6 x 65.7 cm (21 1/2 x 25 7/8 in.)
- 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
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.269
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Inscriptions: Signed lower right: Renoir
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1939.269
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