Description
A red-haired bather sits with one arm raised behind her, hand resting at her hip, her gaze cast down and to the side. She is set within a bower of blue-green foliage, the leaves painted in loose, dabbed strokes that read more as coloured light than as individual leaves, and a pale cloth is bunched beneath her.
Dated around 1915, the picture belongs to the last years of Renoir’s life, when he painted bathers repeatedly in this half-abstracted garden setting. The print keeps the foliage soft and glowing rather than sharpening it into distinct shapes, so the warm figure still stands out as the one solid form in a shifting field of green and blue.



