Low Tide, Yport

1883

Yport, a town on the Normandy coast, was a well-known vacation destination in the 1880s. Renoir chose to ignore its most popular attraction, a casino, and instead painted a picturesque view of the town’s sunlit bay, with its cliffs, fishing boats, and rocky beaches. These distinct elements are treated with uniform, parallel brushstrokes, creating an image that, when viewed from a distance, captures the expanse of muddy seashore dappled in sunlight at low tide.

Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	21 1/4 x 25 9/16 in. (54 x 65 cm) Frame: 28 7/16 x 32 7/8 x 3 3/8 in. (72.2 x 83.5 x 8.6 cm)
Object Number	1955.607
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	On View

Image Caption

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Low Tide, Yport, 1883, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.607

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Bailey, Colin B. and Christopher Riopelle ed. Renoir's Landscape 1861-1883. The National Gallery, London, February 21- May 20, 2007; National Gallery of Canada, June 8- September 9, 2007; Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 30, 2007- January 6, 2008. London: National Gallery Company Limited. 2007. House, John. Impressionists by the Sea. Royal Academy of Arts, London, July 7- September 30, 2007; The Phillips Collection, October 20, 2007-January 13, 2008; Wadsworth Atheneum, February 9- May 11, 2008. London: Royal Academy of Arts. 2007. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. Exhibit Six: Impressionist Paintings.. Opened Sept. 18, 1956.. Kern, Steven, et al. A Passion for Renoir: Sterling and Francine Clark Collect, 19161951. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1996 Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Elda Fezzi.. L'opera complete di Renoir, nel periodo impressionista 1869-1883.. Milan: Rizzoli.. 1972.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Ivinski, Patricia R. "Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector of Renoir." The Magazine Antiques 62, no. 4 (October 1997): 532–35. Herbert, Robert L. Seurat and the Making of "La Grande Jatte". The Art Institute of Chicago , June 16- Sept. 19, 2004. The Art Institute of Chicago in association with University of California Press. 2004:p. 41 cat. 110, p. 64 cat. 111. House, John, and Martha Lucy. Renoir in the Barnes Foundation. New Haven: Yale University Press; Philadelphia: The Barnes Foundation, 2012. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.

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Provenance

The artist, sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, before 1891; [Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York, before 1891–1941, sold to Clark, 5 Nov. 1941, as Marine à Guernsey]; Robert Sterling Clark (1941–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.