Woman in Pink and Yellow in a Landscape (Femme en rose et jaune dans un paysage)

Woman in Pink and Yellow in a Landscape, undated, at the Barnes Foundation, exemplifies Renoir's late compositional formula of a female figure in an outdoor setting, where the clothing colours—here pink and yellow—are chosen as much for their painterly value as for any documentary interest in fashion. Pink and yellow were among his favourite colour combinations, belonging to the warm range he preferred and harmonising naturally with the ochre and green of a southern landscape. Barnes considered such works demonstrations of pure colour intelligence, where the subject is simply a vehicle for chromatic organisation.

The pink and yellow of the clothing create a warm, harmonious two-tone figure against the greens and blues of the outdoor setting. Renoir builds the clothing with relatively flat colour zones that contrast with the more carefully modelled flesh of the face and hands, directing attention through both colour and technique.