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Bathers Playing with a Crab
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About this work
After viewing Renaissance paintings on a trip to Italy in 1881, Renoir attempted to bring greater order and stability to Impressionism by merging flickering light effects with solid forms. He conveyed this new ambition in a series of paintings of nude bathers, a subject that preoccupied him from 1883 until his death in 1919. Avant-garde artists of the 20th century admired his ability to blend modernist and classicizing tendencies.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBathers Playing with a Crab, c. 1897. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919). Oil on fabric; framed: 75.5 x 85.5 x 10 cm (29 3/4 x 33 11/16 x 3 15/16 in.); unframed: 54.6 x 65.7 cm (21 1/2 x 25 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.269
