overall framed - from initial site visit

Standing Female Bather

Album TitleAlbum of Original Prints from the Vollard Gallery

Artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841 - 1919)

Printer Auguste Clot (French, 1858-1936)

Publisher Ambroise Vollard (French, 1870 - 1930)

Date1896

MediumLithograph in black, red/pink, ocher, and blue inks on machine-made, cream, laid paper

DimensionsSight: 18 1/2 × 11 3/4 inches (46.99 × 29.85 cm)
Sheet: 19 7/16 × 12 5/8 inches (49.31 × 31.99 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Mark Sereduck Estate

Object number2024.45

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Not on view

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European Art

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DescriptionThis colored lithograph depicts a nude female stood on a small, earthen mound. Shown from side profile, the blonde woman’s arms cross her body – holding a wispy fabric over her breasts and pubic region. The central figure is surrounded by large areas of exposed thin laid paper, save for the artist’s signature in the lower right corner.Provenance

Provenance

With Park West Gallery, Southfield, MI, by 2020;

Purchased from Park West Gallery by Laura Sereduck, Leawood, KS, 2020-2024 [1];

Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2024.

NOTES:

[1] The object was purchased and subsequently gifted to the museum in honor of Laura's late husband LTC Mark Sereduck (1951-2020) who is listed in the credit line.

Published References

Loys Delteil, "Le peintre-graveur illustré: (XIXe et XXe siècles): tome dix-septième" (Paris: Chez l’Auteur, 2 rue des Beaux-Arts, 1906).

Claude Roger-Marx, "Les lithographies de Renoir" (Monte-Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1951), 3.

Jean Leymarie and Michel Melot, "The Graphic Works of the Impressionists: Manet, Pissarro, Renoir, Cezanne, Sisley" (London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1972), 27.

Joseph G. Stella, "The Graphic Work of Renoir: A Catalogue Raisonné" (1975), 28.

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