AUDIO HIGHLIGHTS

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919), The Bathers, 1918–19. Oil on canvas, 43 5/16 × 63 in. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Gift of the artist’s sons, 1923

Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947), Reclining Nude, 1927. Oil on canvas, 25 5/8 × 31 1/2 in. Private collection. Courtesy of Neffe-Degandt Fine Art and Jill Newhouse

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919), The Concert, 1918-19. Oil on canvas. 29 3/4 × 36 1/2 in. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Gift of Reuben Wells Leonard Estate, 1954

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919), Bathers Playing with a Crab, c. 1897. Oil on fabric. 21 1/2 × 25 7/8 in. Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.269

Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917), Woman Brushing Her Hair, c. 1884. Oil on canvas, 29 1/4 × 23 7/8 in. Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC

Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954), Nude with Crossed Legs, 1936. Oil on canvas, 15 × 18 1/4 in. Nahmad Collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French, 1841–1919, Copy after “The Council of the Gods” by Peter Paul Rubens, 1861. Oil on canvas. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Donated by Mr. Ryuzaburo Umehara

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919), Sleeping Girl, 1880. Oil on canvas, 47 3/8 × 36 1/4 in. Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark, 1926

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919), Study. Torso of a Woman in the Sunlight, 1875-76. Oil on canvas, 31 7/8 × 25 9/16 in. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Bequest of Gustave Caillebotte, 1894

Suzanne Valadon (French, 1865–1938), Two Figures (After the Bath, Neither White nor Black), 1909. Oil on cardboard, 39 3/4 × 32 5/16 in. Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de création industrielle, Paris. Bequest of Doctor Robert Le Masle, 1974

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919), with Richard Guino (Spanish, 1890-1973), Venus Victorious, 1914. Bronze, 71 7/8 × 32 × 43 3/4 in. Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Acquired by the Clark, 1970

Offering the first-ever comprehensive investigation of Renoir’s nudes, Renoir: The Body, The Senses was published by the Clark Art Institute and edited by the exhibition’s curators, Esther Bell, Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator of the Clark Art Institute, and George T. M. Shackelford, deputy director of the Kimbell Art Museum. This beautifully illustrated catalogue includes essays by Colin B. Bailey, Morgan Library & Museum; Martha Lucy, Barnes Foundation; Nicole R. Myers, Dallas Museum of Art; and Sylvie Patry, Musée d’Orsay; with an interview between contemporary figurative painter Lisa Yuskavage and Alison de Lima Greene, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.