Auguste Renoir - Chrysanthemums 1882

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From The Art Institute of Chicago:
“I just let my brain rest when I paint flowers,” Pierre-Auguste Renoir remarked. “I don’t experience the same tension as I do when confronted by the model. When I am painting flowers, I establish the tones, I study the values carefully without worrying about losing the picture. I don’t dare do this with a figure piece for fear of ruining it.”
— Permanent collection label

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