Fulfilled as a painter in the 1870s and 1880s, Renoir continued to study sensual female figures until the end of his career, through sculpture. In fact, his bathers are veritable transpositions of his nudes’ figures, whether in the treatment of volume or attitude.
This was an initiative of Ambroise Vollard, a renowned Parisian art dealer and publisher, who in 1913 sent a young sculptor, Guino, to work with the Impressionist master, as Renoir was gradually becoming blind, and his hands became less nimble with age. Guino thus supported the master, proposing a whole series of sculptural variations on his paintings.