Bathers

But the mini-retrospective also includes Mr. Boxer's strong, washy, Cubist "Bathers" (1947); the Impressionistic "Still Life" (1951), resembling a Claude Monet landscape; the gorgeous, enigmatic Cubist-derived abstraction "Interior Still Life With A Red" (1960); and the biomorphic "Willowsnowpond" (1972), which fuses sky, water, flora and snake.

Playing With Sand, Wind and Fire Lance Esplund 2011

But to early 21st-century eyes, unconditioned by the larger moral and political crisis of World War I — the sense of devastating loss, vanquished futures and wholesale physical destruction against which Renoir's late painting was a luminous, sensate balm — many of his last works, and especially the culminative "Bathers," remain, perhaps irretrievably, anachronistic.

Impressions of an Aging Artist 2010

But to early 21st-century eyes, unconditioned by the larger moral and political crisis of World War I — the sense of devastating loss, vanquished futures and wholesale physical destruction against which Renoir's late painting was a luminous, sensate balm — many of his last works, and especially the culminative "Bathers," remain, perhaps irretrievably, anachronistic.

Impressions of an Aging Artist 2010

But to early 21st-century eyes, unconditioned by the larger moral and political crisis of World War I — the sense of devastating loss, vanquished futures and wholesale physical destruction against which Renoir's late painting was a luminous, sensate balm — many of his last works, and especially the culminative "Bathers," remain, perhaps irretrievably, anachronistic.

Impressions of an Aging Artist 2010

The gray-on-gray figures in his "Bathers" could almost be paper dolls.

MoMA show is the Matisse we don't know -- blacks, whites and the grays in between 2010

But to early 21st-century eyes, unconditioned by the larger moral and political crisis of World War I — the sense of devastating loss, vanquished futures and wholesale physical destruction against which Renoir's late painting was a luminous, sensate balm — many of his last works, and especially the culminative "Bathers," remain, perhaps irretrievably, anachronistic.

Impressions of an Aging Artist 2010

John McEnroe whose "Bathers" was purchased by DAM for their permanent collection and Rick Dula for that matter whose "A Moment in Time: Here" was also acquired.

Leanne Goebel: What's missing from Colorado's "Best of..." lists when it comes to visual art Leanne Goebel 2010

Matisse's "Bathers" were naked, but they were at the beach.

Briefly displayed: a video of Sarah Palin, in her Miss Alaska bathing suit, was a brief internet sensation. Ann Althouse 2008

The theft of nine paintings, including Renoir's "Bathers" and Monet's "Impression, Soleil Levant" above, which gave Impressionism its name, from the Marmottan Museum in Paris is among the most famous in history.

I. The United Kingdom: August... 2006

Another blockbuster crime was the theft of nine paintings, including Renoir's "Bathers" and Monet's "Impression, Soleil Levant," which gave Impressionism its name, from the Marmottan Museum in Paris in November 1985.

The World's Greatest Art Heists Forbes.com 2006