Before the Bath (Avant le bain) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Barnes FoundationBarnes Foundation (Ph
Before the Bath (Avant le bain) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Barnes FoundationBarnes Foundation (Philadelphia), Collection Gallery, Room 07, West Wall\nBefore the Bath is one of 19 paintings Renoir offered for sale in a scandalous public auction in Paris on March 23-24, 1875. Organized by the Galerie Durand-Ruel, the auction included new works by Renoir, Monet, Morisot, and Sisley; so controversial were the canvases on view that the public became almost violent.Martha Lucy, Renoir in the Barnes FoundationMedium: Oil on canvashttps://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/5323/ -- source link
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