Renoir in the 20th Century (Ciltli)

This thick catalog is devoted to the glorious final three decades of works from Pierre-Auguste Renoir-the decades in which the painter turned away from Impressionism and toward a more decorative approach informed by his own idiosyncratic interpretation of art history. The thinly brushed color and soft outlines in such later works as the "Odalisques" and Bathers of 1918-19 (a picture that Renoir described as "a springboard for future research") were much admired by younger artists like Bonnard, Matisse, and Picasso, who gravitated to their sensuality and to the fleshy richness of his nudes.