Description
A bather sits amid soft pastel foliage, reddish-brown hair loose about her shoulders, her whole figure built from warm pink and cream with almost no hard edge anywhere in the canvas. The surrounding greens, yellows and pinks blur into the figure itself, so foreground and background barely separate.
Painted in 1918, the year before Renoir’s death, and held by the Barnes Foundation, the small canvas (31.2 by 24.1 cm) shows the loosest, softest brushwork of his career, the paint applied in broad, glowing strokes rather than defined forms. The print preserves that deliberate softness rather than sharpening the picture into something Renoir never painted.



