Description
A red-haired woman, a red flower tucked behind her ear, leans over a guitar cradled in her lap, her fingers pressed to the dark fretboard as she looks down at the strings. She wears a white blouse with full, gathered sleeves over a mustard-yellow bodice, set against a loosely painted curtain striped in purple, yellow, and rose.
Renoir concentrates his most careful modeling on the face and the bare arms, while the striped background dissolves into quick vertical strokes of color, a device he used often in his late work to frame a figure without competing with it. The warm reds of her hair and the flower echo through the pinks of her skin and the drapery below.
This painting is offered as a hand-painted oil reproduction or an archival canvas print, made to order in a range of sizes, with the composition housed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.



