Still Life with Strawberries

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

Still-life paintings often suggest a human presence, implying the viewer’s bodily relationship to a tabletop and investing inanimate objects with emotion. Pierre-Auguste Renoir made still-life paintings throughout his career for financial reasons (they were easy to sell), to explore color combinations, and to complement his figural compositions, which themselves often feature still-life elements. He once told his dealer that his studies of roses were “research into flesh tones for a nude.” Here, his rounded, lushly painted strawberries in a dish on a white cloth also recall the rosy flesh of his female nudes.

Caption

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Limoges, France, 1841–1919, Cagnes–sur–Mer, France. Still Life with Strawberries, 1914. Oil on canvas, 9 5/8 × 17 5/8 in. (24.4 × 44.8 cm) frame: 14 7/8 × 22 × 1 1/2 in. (37.8 × 55.9 × 3.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Alexander M. Bing, 60.29. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 60.29_SL1.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

European Art

Title

Still Life with Strawberries

Date

1914

Geography

Place made: France

Medium

Oil on canvas

Classification

Painting

Dimensions

9 5/8 × 17 5/8 in. (24.4 × 44.8 cm) frame: 14 7/8 × 22 × 1 1/2 in. (37.8 × 55.9 × 3.8 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower left: "Renoir."

Credit Line

Bequest of Alexander M. Bing

Accession Number

60.29

Rights

No known copyright restrictions

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