Woman leaning on her elbow is a painting by the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1917-1919 and kept at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris.
The work hits front of a sleepy and melancholic woman who leans her head on her hand. It is one of the typical paintings of the painter's late work. The predominant shades are yellowish-reddish and are modulated with great freshness in a wide range of gradations, which certainly resemble the vivacity of the Mediterranean nature of Cagnes, the citadel in which it retired. The woman's face is also portrayed on an indefinite background, sketched in an immediate fashion; His flesh is finally shaped by dense, pasty brush strokes, in which the latent sculptural mentality of Renoir (intent, just during old age, to shape Venus statues) is felt.
Woman leaning on her elbow is greatly affected by the plastic activity of the sculptor, which in turn is strongly influenced by the Renoirian pictorial oeuvre. The sculptures that Renoir performed in the ten-twentieth century, in fact, can be considered in full swap the plastic translation of his paintings and the extreme attempt to rediscover that corporeality of the forms so long desired during the aigre period. Notemodify wikitesto
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