Renoir - Washer Women

Washer Women was painted in 1912.

Type of the painting - Oil on canvas.

Painting size - 73 x 92 cm.

Bathers, odalisques or washerwomen, whether nude or decked out in bright colors - all, for Renoir, are inseparable from the trees, flowers or fruit around them, whose being is intimately connected with their own. Elements of one world, each takes its rise as an indefinable mass slowly built up round a point of light, which Renoir takes as its center of gravity, and which he spins out into its final accents of color. Carried several stages further than in the Garden at Les Collettes, this landscape subtly hints at the underlying masses behind the accents of color that give them life and form.

It is a part of the following sets: Girls, Woman