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Reclining Woman Bather
| Date | 1906 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | oil on canvas |
| Size（cm） | 54.8 x 65 |
| Inscriptions | Signed lower right: Renoir. |
| Credit Line | Donated by Mr. Ryuzaburo Umehara |
| Category | Paintings |
| Collection Number | P.1974-0002 |
An interest in strongly delineated forms began to manifest itself in Renoir's style in the latter half of the 1880s; thereafter his style underwent a period of transformation as he sought to imbue his forms with a sense of presence through brush strokes and color. The nude in a landscape was one of the topics that Renoir most enjoyed grappling with during this period. This reclining nude suggests an image from a mythological painting, such as the goddess Venus or a woodland nymph. (Source: The Digital Gallery. 1999-2006)
Provenance
Marlborough Fine Art, London; Wildenstein, London; Fischer Fine Art, London; Yayoi Gallery, Tokyo; Donated by Mr. Ryuzaburo Umehara, Tokyo, 1974
Exhibition History
- 1959
- 19th and 20th century European masters, Marlborough Fine Art, London, 0 1959 - 0 1959, cat. no. 61, repr. p. 31
- 1963
- A loan exhibition of the French impressionists and some of their contemporaries, in aid of the National Playing Fields Association and the Jewish National Fund, Wildenstein, London, 24 April 1963 - 18 May 1963, cat. no. 60, repr. p. 2
- 1983
- Modern Nude Paintings: 1880-1980, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 7 October 1983 - 4 December 1983
- 1986
- Renoir et les impressionnistes, Hokkaido Hakodate Museum of Art, 23 September 1986 - 3 November 1986, cat. no. 40, col. repr.
- 1989
- The French Modern Painting, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Miyakonojo City Museum, 15 April 1989 - 14 May 1989, cat. no. 8, repr.
- 1996
- The Crossing Visions: European and Modern Japanese Art from the Collections of The National Museum of Western Art & The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 20 July 1996 - 8 September 1996, cat. no. 28
- 2005
- Late Umehara: His Art and Collection, The Shoto Museum of Art, 5 April 2005 - 15 May 2005, cat. no. C-39, col. repr.
- 2015
- NO MUSEUM, NO LIFE?: Art-Museum Encyclopedia to Come: From the Collections of the National Museums of Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 16 June 2015 - 13 September 2015, cat. no. P-9
- 2016
- Bonjour, Monsieur Renoir: Renoir et Umehara - joie de peindre, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, 19 October 2016 - 9 January 2017, ABENO HARUKAS Art Museum, Osaka, 24 January-26 March, cat. no. 28, col. repr.
Bibliography
- 1918
- Vollard, Ambroise. Renoir. Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir. vol. 2, 1918, p. 45, repr.
- 1919
- Vollard, Ambroise. La vie & l'œuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Paris, A. Vollard, 1919, p. 250.
- 1960
- Connoisseur. June 1960, p. 5, repr. p. 4.
- 1975
- Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1975 (Japanese), no. 44, repr.
- 1976
- Bulletin Annuel du Musée National d’Art Occidental. No. 9 (1974), 1976, Nouvelles acquisitions, par Chisaburoh F. Yamada, pp. 4-5. Nouvelles acquisitions (catalogue). pp. 12-13, repr.
- 1978
- Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1978 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 51, repr.
- 1979
- The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 237, repr.
- 1983
- Modern Nude Paintings 1880-1980 (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Art, Osaka, ed. [Suita], The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 1983, pp. 41, 116, cat. no. 117, repr.
- 1986
- Renoir et les impressionnistes (exh. cat.). Hokkaido Hakodate Museum of Art, ed. [Sapporo], The Hokkaido Shimbun, 1986, pp. 44, 117, cat. no. 40, col. repr.
- 1989
- Vollard, Ambroise. Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Paintings, Pastels and Drawings. First published in 1918 by Vollard, revised edition with first English translation, San Francisco, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989, no. 908, repr.
- 2005
- Late Umehara: his art and collection(exh. cat.). The Shoto Museum of Art, ed. [Tokyo], The Shoto Museum of Art, 2005, cat. no. C-39, col. repr.
- 2016
- Bonjour, Monsieur Renoir: Renoir et Umehara - joie de peindre (exh. cat.). Mitsubishi Ichigoukan Museum, Tokyo et al., eds. [Tokyo], Curators, 2016, pp. 58, 185, cat, no, 28, col. repr.