Pierre-Auguste Renoir

After the Bath (La Sortie du bain)

1910. Oil on canvas

Location

On View: Room 13, West Wall

Artist

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841 - 1919)

Year

1910

Medium

Oil on canvas

Accession Number

BF142

Dimensions

Overall: 37 3/16 x 29 5/8 in. (94.5 x 75.2 cm)

Viewing Status

Currently on view

Public Domain

Disclaimer

Please note that not all records are complete as research on the collection is ongoing.

The present work is one of four Renoirs that Dr. Barnes acquired from the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel in December 1915, and in his book The Art of Renoir he describes the canvas as the embodiment of "the classic feeling of Michelangelo and Raphael, and the swirling surging movement of Tintoretto and Rubens." This homage to the old masters was an integral component of Renoir's modernist language. Unique to his late figurative paintings is the distorted ratio between the body's amplitude and its constricted surroundings, the suggestion of contours through tonal shifts, and the application of thin paint layers to allow the ground to show through, imbuing the flesh with an unparalleled luminescence.

Bibliography

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André, Albert. Renoir. Paris, G. Crès & Cie, 1923, plate 42.

Barnes, Albert C. and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Henri-Matisse. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933, 189, cat. data no. 433.

---. The Art of Renoir. Merion, Pa.: The Barnes Foundation Press, 1935, 123 n, 124 n, 125 n, 126, 168 n, 195 n, 198 n, 328 ill., cat. data no. 247.

De Mazia, Violette. "Creative Distortion: The Case of the Levitated Pear." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 4, no. 1 (Spring 1973): 9, pl. 30.

---. "The Barnes Foundation: The Display of Its Art Collection." Vistas 2, no. 2 (1981-1983): 112, pl. 125 (installation).

---. "Form and Matter." Vistas 5, no. 2 (1991): 24-5, pl. 54.

Basler, A. and Charles Kunstler. La Peinture Indépendante en France: De Monet à Bonnard. Paris: G. Crès et cie, 1929, plate 27 ill.

Besson, G. Auguste Renoir. Paris: G. Crès et cie, 1932, pl. 22 ill.

Fezzi, E. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Renoir: période impressioniste, 1869-1883. Paris: Flammarion, 1985, no. 706 ill.

French Period Furniture & Decoration. Auction cat. Sotheby Parke Bernet. New York, June 15, 1950, no. 117. [on related sketch]

Lucy, Martha and John House. Renoir in the Barnes Foundation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012: 18, 161, 177, 180 ill., 181, 185, 203, 306-7 cat. 51.

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Renoir, 1929, p. 336, no. 354. Renoir, peintre du nu, préface d'Henri de Régnier. Paris, Les éditions Bernheim-Jeune, 1923, ill, n. p.

Wattenmaker, Richard J. and Anne Distel. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Early Modern. New York: Alfred A. Knopf in association with Lincoln University Press, 1993, 86, 87 ill.

Exhibition History

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National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 2-August 15, 1993; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, November 6, 1993-January 2, 1994; National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, January 21-April 3, 1994; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, April 24-August 16, 1994; Art Gallery of Ontario, September 17-December 31, 1994; Philadelphia Museum of Art, January 29-April 9, 1995, "Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Early Modern."

Provenance

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Purchased by Durand-Ruel, Paris, from the artist, October 19, 1910 [1]; purchased by Albert C. Barnes from Durand-Ruel, with BF1, BF68, and BF221, December 18, 1915 [2]

[1] Archives Durand-Ruel, Paris.

[2] Barnes Foundation archives. Account statement, Durand-Ruel to Barnes, January 4, 1916. The stock number on the statement (no. 3906) is also found on the Durand-Ruel label on the painting's stretcher.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

After the Bath (La Sortie du bain)

1910. Oil on canvas

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