Auguste Renoir - Girl with fan 1881

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The actress Jeanne Samary may have posed for this painting in her cheerfully decorated dressing room at the Comédie-Française, a theater in Paris. Yet the image, as indicated by its title, was not intended as a portrait. The informal subject freed Renoir to experiment with composition—the figure occupies a compressed space, a vibrant bouquet competing with her features. She holds an uchiwa fan, reflecting a fascination with all things Japanese in late nineteenth-century France.
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Cézanne painted Bathers from the 1870s onwards, including numerous
compositions of male and female bathers, singly or in groups. Late in life,
he painted three large-scale female bather groups. In such works, Cézanne
was reinterpreting a long tradition of paintings with nude figures in the
landscape by artists such as Titian and Poussin. - art-Cezanne.com

Judith and the Head of Holofernes 1901 - Judith and the Head of Holofernes
(also known as Judith I) is an oil painting by Gustav Klimt created in 1901. It
depicts the biblical character of Judith holding the severed head of Holofernes.
When Klimt tackles the biblical theme of Judith, the historical course of art has
already codified its main interpretation and preferential raffiguration... - art-Klimt.com

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Auguste Renoir 1841-1919