Description
A woman stands at full length, her weight on one leg and the other foot crossed in front of it. She lifts one arm above her shoulder with a small dark castanet in her fingers; the other hand goes behind her back to the hip. Her hair is bound up with a band, her eyes are lowered and she is half smiling.
Renoir sets her between two broad vertical panels of ochre and cream drapery, with a strip of olive green foliage behind her head. The whole picture is keyed warm: coral and rose in the flesh, gold in the hangings, and green used only as a foil. He signed at the lower left.
This is 1918, the last full year of his life. The drawing is soft to the point of dissolving at the contours, and the figure is held together by colour temperature rather than by line.



