Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Composition, Five Bathers (Composition, cinq baigneuses), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1917-1918, Oil on canvas, For the last decade of his life, from 1908 to 1919, Renoir lived and worked at Les Collettes, his estate in the south of France. Surrounded by olive trees and rolling hills, the property represented for Renoir a kind of pre-industrial Eden, far removed from rapidly modernizing Paris. It was here that he produced this bathing group and countless other scenes of sensual nudes lounging in sun-dappled landscapes. Renoir's aim here is not to convince us that this is a

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