Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; ; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially

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sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from

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to Watteau." He was the father of actor Pierre Renoir (1885–1952), filmmaker

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(1894–1979) and ceramic artist Claude Renoir (1901–1969). He was the grandfather of the filmmaker Claude Renoir (1913–1993), son of Pierre.

Life

Youth

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in

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, France, in 1841. His father, Léonard Renoir, was a tailor of modest means, so, in 1844, Renoir's family moved to Paris in search of more favorable prospects. The location of their home, in rue d'Argenteuil in central

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, placed Renoir in proximity to the Louvre. Although the young Renoir had a natural proclivity for drawing, he exhibited a greater talent for singing. His talent was encouraged by his teacher,

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, who was the choirmaster at the Church of St Roch at the time. However, due to the family's financial circumstances, Renoir had to discontinue his music lessons and leave school at the age of thirteen to pursue an apprenticeship at a

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factory. Although Renoir displayed a talent for his work, he frequently tired of the subject matter and sought refuge in the galleries of the

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. The owner of the factory recognized his apprentice's talent and communicated this to Renoir's family. Following this, Renoir started taking lessons to prepare for entry into Ecole des Beaux Arts. When the

factory adopted mechanical reproduction processes in 1858, Renoir was forced to find other means to support his learning. Before he enrolled in art school, he also painted hangings for overseas missionaries and decorations on fans. In 1862, he began studying art under Charles Gleyre in Paris. There he met Alfred Sisley, Frédéric Bazille, and

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. At times, during the 1860s, he did not have enough money to buy paint. Renoir had his first success at the

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of 1868 with his painting '' Lise with a Parasol'' (1867), which depicted Lise Tréhot, his lover at the time. Distel, Anne. "Renoir, Auguste." ''Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online''. Oxford University Press. Web. 27 December 2014. Although Renoir first started exhibiting paintings at the Paris Salon in 1864, recognition was slow in coming, partly as a result of the turmoil of the

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. During the

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in 1871, while Renoir painted on the banks of the Seine River, some Communards thought he was a spy and were about to throw him into the river, when a leader of the ''Commune'', Raoul Rigault, recognized Renoir as the man who had protected him on an earlier occasion. In 1874, a ten-year friendship with Jules Le Cœur and his family ended,Wadley, page 15. and Renoir lost not only the valuable support gained by the association but also a generous welcome to stay on their property near

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and its scenic

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. This loss of a favorite painting location resulted in a distinct change of subjects.

Adulthood

Renoir was inspired by the style and subject matter of previous modern painters Camille Pissarro and

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. After a series of rejections by the Salon juries, he joined forces with Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, and several other artists to mount the First Impressionist Exhibition in April 1874, in which Renoir displayed six paintings. Although the critical response to the exhibition was largely unfavorable, Renoir's work was comparatively well received. That same year, two of his works were shown with Durand-Ruel in London. Auguste Renoir - The Swing - Google Art Project

Auguste Renoir - The Swing - Google Art Project

Hoping to secure a livelihood by attracting portrait commissions, Renoir displayed mostly portraits at the second Impressionist exhibition in 1876. He contributed a more diverse range of paintings the next year when the group presented its third exhibition; they included ''Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette'' and ''The Swing''. Renoir did not exhibit in the fourth or fifth Impressionist exhibitions, and instead resumed submitting his works to the Salon. By the end of the 1870s, particularly after the success of his painting '' Mme Charpentier and her Children'' (1878) at the Salon of 1879, Renoir was a successful and fashionable painter. It was also in 1879 that he met the man who was soon to become his main patron, , who regularly invited him to paint and enjoy the Normandy seaside at the In 1881, he traveled to

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, a country he associated with

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, then to

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, to see the work of

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. Following that, he traveled to Italy to see

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's masterpieces in

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and the paintings of

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in Rome. On 15 January 1882, Renoir met the composer

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at his home in

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, Sicily. Renoir painted Wagner's portrait in just thirty-five minutes. In the same year, after contracting pneumonia which permanently damaged his respiratory system, Renoir convalesced for six weeks in Algeria.Wadley, p. 25. In 1883, Renoir spent the summer in

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, one of the

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in the

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with a varied landscape of beaches, cliffs, and bays, where he created fifteen paintings in little over a month. Most of these feature ''Moulin Huet'', a bay in Saint Martin's, Guernsey. These paintings were the subject of a set of commemorative postage stamps issued by the Bailiwick of Guernsey in 1983. While living and working in Montmartre, Renoir employed Suzanne Valadon as a model, who posed for him (''The Large Bathers'', 1884–1887; '' Dance at Bougival'', 1883) and many of his fellow painters; during that time, she studied their techniques and eventually became one of the leading painters of the day. In 1887, the year when

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celebrated her

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, and upon the request of the queen's associate, Phillip Richbourg, Renoir donated several paintings to the "French Impressionist Paintings" catalog as a token of his loyalty. Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Luncheon of the Boating Party - Google Art Project

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Luncheon of the Boating Party - Google Art Project

In 1890, he married Aline Victorine Charigot, a dressmaker twenty years his junior, who, along with a number of the artist's friends, had already served as a model for ''Le Déjeuner des canotiers'' ('' Luncheon of the Boating Party''; she is the woman on the left playing with the dog) in 1881, and with whom he had already had a child, Pierre, in 1885. After marrying, Renoir painted many scenes of his wife and daily family life including their children and their nurse, Aline's cousin Gabrielle Renard. The Renoirs had three sons: Pierre Renoir (1885–1952), who became a stage and film actor;

(1894–1979), who became a filmmaker of note; and Claude Renoir (1901–1969), who became a ceramic artist.

Later years

Around 1892, Renoir developed

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. In 1907, he moved to the warmer climate of "Les Collettes", a farm at the village of

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, close to the

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coast. Renoir painted during the last twenty years of his life even after his arthritis severely limited his mobility. He developed progressive deformities in his hands and ankylosis of his right shoulder, requiring him to change his painting technique. It has often been reported that in the advanced stages of his arthritis, he painted by having a brush strapped to his paralyzed fingers, but this is erroneous; Renoir remained able to grasp a brush, although he required an assistant to place it in his hand. The wrapping of his hands with bandages, apparent in late photographs of the artist, served to prevent skin irritation. In 1919, Renoir visited the

to see his paintings hanging with those of the old masters. During this period, he created sculptures by cooperating with a young artist, Richard Guino, who worked the clay. Due to his limited joint mobility, Renoir also used a moving canvas, or picture roll, to facilitate painting large works. Renoir's portrait of Austrian actress Tilla Durieux (1914) contains playful flecks of vibrant color on her shawl that offset the classical pose of the actress and highlight Renoir's skill just five years before his death. Renoir died in Cagnes-sur-Mer on 3 December 1919 at the age of 78.

Family legacy

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's great-grandson, Alexandre Renoir, has also become a professional artist. In 2018, the Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center in Hendersonville, Tennessee, hosted ''Beauty Remains'', an exhibition of his works. The exhibition title comes from a famous quote by Renoir who, when asked why he continued to paint with his painful arthritis in his advanced years, replied "The pain passes, but the beauty remains."

Artworks

Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. However, in 1876, a reviewer in

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wrote "Try to explain to Monsieur Renoir that a woman's torso is not a mass of decomposing flesh with those purplish green stains that denote a state of complete putrefaction in a corpse." Yet in characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of colour, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings. His initial paintings show the influence of the colorism of

and the luminosity of

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. He also admired the realism of Gustave Courbet and

, and his early work resembles theirs in his use of black as a color. Renoir admired Edgar Degas' sense of movement. Other painters Renoir greatly admired were the 18th-century masters

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and

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. A fine example of Renoir's early work and evidence of the influence of Courbet's realism, is '' Diana'', 1867. Ostensibly a mythological subject, the painting is a naturalistic studio work; the figure carefully observed, solidly modeled and superimposed upon a contrived landscape. If the work is a "student" piece, Renoir's heightened personal response to female sensuality is present. The model was Lise Tréhot, the artist's mistress at that time, and inspiration for a number of paintings. In the late 1860s, through the practice of painting light and water ''

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'' (outdoors), he and his friend

discovered that the color of shadows is not brown or black, but the reflected color of the objects surrounding them, an effect known today as

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. Several pairs of paintings exist in which Renoir and Monet worked side-by-side, depicting the same scenes (''La Grenouillère'', 1869). One of the best-known Impressionist works is Renoir's 1876 ''Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette ( Bal du moulin de la Galette)''. The painting depicts an open-air scene, crowded with people at a popular dance garden on the ''Butte Montmartre'' close to where he lived. The works of his early maturity were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling color and light. Renoir Blond Bather

By the mid-1880s, however, he had broken with the movement to apply a more disciplined formal technique to portraits and figure paintings, particularly of women. It was a trip to Italy in 1881 when he saw works by

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, and other

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masters, that convinced him that he was on the wrong path. At that point he declared, "I had gone as far as I could with Impressionism and I realized I could neither paint nor draw". For the next several years he painted in a more severe style in an attempt to return to classicism. Concentrating on his drawing and emphasizing the outlines of figures, he painted works such as '' Blonde Bather'' (1881 and 1882) and ''The Large Bathers'' (1884–1887;

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) during what is sometimes referred to as his " Ingres period". Auguste Renoir - Young Girls at the Piano - Google Art Project

After 1890 he changed direction again. To dissolve outlines, as in his earlier work, he returned to thinly brushed color. From this period onward he concentrated on monumental nudes and domestic scenes, fine examples of which are '' Girls at the Piano'', 1892, and '' Grandes Baigneuses'', 1887. The latter painting is the most typical and successful of Renoir's late, abundantly fleshed nudes. A prolific artist, he created several thousand paintings. The warm sensuality of Renoir's style made his paintings some of the most well-known and frequently reproduced works in the history of art. The single largest collection of his works—181 paintings in all—is at the Barnes Foundation, in

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Catalogue raisonné

A five-volume ''

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'' of Renoir's works (with one supplement) was published by Bernheim-Jeune between 1983 and 2014. Bernheim-Jeune is the only surviving major art dealer that was used by Renoir. The Wildenstein Institute is preparing, but has not yet published, a critical catalogue of Renoir's work. A disagreement between these two organizations concerning an unsigned work in Picton Castle was at the centre of the second episode of the fourth season of the television series '' Fake or Fortune''.

Posthumous prints

In 1919, Ambroise Vollard, a renowned art dealer, published a book on the life and work of Renoir, ''La Vie et l'Œuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir'', in an edition of 1000 copies. In 1986, Vollard's heirs started reprinting the copper plates, generally,

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s with hand applied

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. These prints are signed by Renoir in the plate and are embossed "Vollard" in the lower margin. They are not numbered, dated or signed in pencil.

Posthumous sales

A small version of '' Bal du moulin de la Galette'' sold for $78.1 million 17 May 1990 at Sotheby's New York. In 2012, Renoir's '' Paysage Bords de Seine'' was offered for sale at auction but the painting was discovered to have been stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1951. The sale was cancelled.

Gallery of paintings

Portraits and landscapes

File:Romaine Lacaux, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.1065.jpg, ''Portrait of Romaine Lacaux'', 1864,

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File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Spring Bouquet - 1943.277 - Fogg Museum.jpg, ''Spring Bouquet'', 1866, Fogg Museum, Cambridge. File:Dans la forêt de Fontainebleau 1866.jpg, ''Dans la forêt de Fontainebleau'', 1866, Private Collection. File:Lise Sewing - 1866.jpg, ''Lise Sewing'', 1866, Dallas Museum of Art File:Auguste Renoir - La Grenouillère - Google Art Project.jpg, ''La Grenouillère'', 1868,

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, Stockholm File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir 110.jpg, ''Portrait of Alfred Sisley'', 1868, Foundation E. G. Bührle, Zürich File:Auguste Renoir - En été - La bohémienne - Google Art Project.jpg, '' In Summer (En été)'', 1868, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin File:Pont-Neuf (1872) - Pierre-Auguste Renoir (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.).jpg, ''Pont-Neuf'', 1872, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. File:La Loge de P.-A. Renoir (Fondation Vuitton, Paris) (46499625955).jpg, '' La Loge (The Theatre Box)'', 1874, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Danseuse.jpg, ''The Dancer'', 1874, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. File:Renoirgarden.jpg, ''Woman with a Parasol in a Garden'', 1875, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid File:Pierre August Renoir, Claude Monet Reading.jpg, ''Portrait of

reading'', c. 1875, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, France File:Les Grands Boulevards - Renoir - 1875 - NG.jpg, '' The Grands Boulevards'', 1875,

File:Auguste Renoir - A Girl with a Watering Can - Google Art Project.jpg, '' A Girl with a Watering Can'', 1876, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. File:Eugène Murer (Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier, 1841–1906) MET DT1882.jpg, '' Portrait of Eugène Murer'', 1876,

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, New York File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - La Promenade - Google Art Project.jpg, '' Mother and Children'', 1876,

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, New York File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir 096.jpg, ''Portrait of Jeanne Samary'', 1877,

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, Moscow File:Renoir - Madame Georges Charpentier et ses enfants.jpg, ''Mme. Charpentier and her children'', 1878,

, New York File:Campo de trigo.jpg, ''Wheatfield'', 1879, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid File:La Yole - The Skiff - Renoir.jpg, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ''Boating on the Seine (La Yole)'', c. 1879,

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, London File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - By the Water.jpg, ''By the Water'', 1880,

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, Chicago, Illinois File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Umbrellas, ca. 1881-86.jpg, '' The Umbrellas'', c. 1880–1886,

, London File:Renoir Девушки в черном.jpg, '' Young Women in Black'', c.1880–1882,

, Moscow File:Renoir Mlles Cahen d Anvers.jpg, '' Pink and Blue'' showing Alice and Elisabeth Cahen d'Anvers, 1881, São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo File:Pierre Auguste Renoir - The Piazza San Marco, Venice - Google Art Project.jpg, ''The Piazza San Marco, Venice'', 1881 Minneapolis Institute of Art File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Jeanne Henriot.jpg, ''Fillette au chapeau bleu'', 1881, ( Jane Henriot), private collection File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir 107.jpg, ''Portrait of Charles and Georges Durand-Ruel'', 1882 File:Dance-At-Bougival.jpg, '' Dance at Bougival'', 1882–1883, (woman at left is painter Suzanne Valadon),

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File:Pierre Auguste Renoir - Country Dance - Google Art Project.jpg, '' Dance in the Country'' (''Aline Charigot and Paul Lhote''), 1883,

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, Paris File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir 019.jpg, '' Dance in the City'', 1883,

, Paris File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Children on the Seashore, Guernsey (Enfants au bord de la mer à Guernesey) - BF10 - Barnes Foundation.jpg, ''Children at the Beach at

,'' 1883, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Sailor Boy (Portrait of Robert Nunès) - BF325 - Barnes Foundation.jpg, ''Jeune garçon sur la plage d'Yport'', 1883, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia File:Girl with a Hoop.JPG, ''Girl With a Hoop'', 1885, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Suzanne Valadon - La Natte - Girl Braiding Her Hair.jpg, '' Girl Braiding Her Hair ( Suzanne Valadon)'', 1885, Langmatt Museum, Baden File:Still Life with Flowers and Prickly Pears MET DP257756.jpg, ''Still Life with Flowers and Prickly Pears'', 1885,

, New York File:Pierre Auguste Renoir - Portrait of Mme. Paulin - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Portrait of madame Paulin'', c. 1885–1890,

Israel Museum The Israel Museum (, ''Muze'on Yisrael'', ) is an Art museum, art and archaeology museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel's largest and foremost cultural institution, and one of the world's leading Encyclopedic museum, encyclopa ...

, Jerusalem File:Pierre Auguste Renoir - Paysage à La Roche-Guyon.jpg, ''Paysage à La Roche-Guyon'', c. 1887, Pérez Simón Collection, Mexico City File:Auguste Renoir - Julie Manet - Google Art ProjectFXD.jpg, '' Julie Manet with cat,'' 1887,

, Paris File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Jeune fille au ruban bleu.jpg, '' Young Woman with a Blue Choker'', 1888, Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon File:Two Girls Reading LACMA M.68.46.1.jpg, '' Girls Reading'', c. 1890–1891, LACMA, Los Angeles File:Renoir - Jeune fille se peignant (La Toilette), 1894.jpg, ''Young Girl with Red Hair'', 1894, Private Collection File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Christine Lerolle brodant.jpg, ''Christine Lerolle Embroidering'', 1895, Columbus Museum of Art File:Gabrielle et Jean, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, from C2RMF cropped.jpg, '' Gabrielle Renard and infant son

'', 1895, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris File:Renoir - The guitar player, c. 1896.jpg, ''The guitar player'', 1896, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - The Artist's Family (La Famille de l'artiste) - BF819 - Barnes Foundation.jpg, ''The Artist's Family'', 1896, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir 042.jpg, '' Gabrielle with Open Blouse'', 1907, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir 106.jpg, ''Portrait of Ambroise Vollard'', 1908,

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, London File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Jean en tant que Chasseur (1910).jpg, ''Portrait of Jean Renoir as a Huntsman'', 1910, LACMA, Los Angeles File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir 113.jpg, ''Portrait of Paul Durand-Ruel'', 1910 File:The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes MET DT215205.jpg, '' The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes'', c. 1908–1914,

, New York File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Vera Sergine Renoir.jpg, ''Portrait of Vera Sergine Renoir'', 1918, Botero Museum, Bogotá

Self-portraits

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Self-portrait Self-portraits are Portrait painting, portraits artists make of themselves. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, the practice of self-portraiture only gaining momentum in the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century ...

'', 1875 File:Renoir, Pierre-Auguste - Self-portrait - Harvard Art Museums.Fogg Museum.jpg, ''

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Nudes

File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir 020.jpg, '' Diana'', 1867, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Torse, effet de soleil.jpg, ''Nude in the Sun'', 1875,

, Paris File:Femme Nue dans un Paysage, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, from C2RMF cropped.jpg, ''Seated Girl'', 1883 File:The river (Le Fleuve) - Renoir - 1885.jpg, ''The river (Le Fleuve)'', 1885 File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French - The Large Bathers - Google Art Project.jpg, '' The Large Bathers'', 1887,

File:1887, Renoir, Nu Dans un Paysage.jpg, ''Nude in a Landscape'', 1887, Princeton University Art Museum File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Trois Baigneuses au crabe.jpg, ''Three Bathers'', 1895, Cleveland Museum of Art

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, Ohio File:Renoir's Nude.jpg, ''

Nude Nudity is the state of being in which a human is without clothing. While estimates vary, for the first 90,000 years of pre-history, anatomically modern humans were naked, having lost their body hair, living in hospitable climates, and no ...

'', National Museum of Serbia, Belgrade File:Renoir18.jpg, '' After The Bath'', 1910, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir 030.jpg, ''Woman at the Well'', 1910 File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Baigneuse assise s'essuyant une jambe.jpg, ''Seated Bather Drying Her Leg'', 1914, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris File:Bathing Women (Auguste Renoir) - Nationalmuseum - 19163.tif, ''Women Bathers'', 1916, National Museum, Stockholm File:Pierre Auguste Renoir Les baigneuses.jpg, ''Bathers'', 1918, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

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On 7 December 2019 th
Alberta Symphony Orchestra
presented
Tribute to Renoir
at Triffo Theater in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, under the direction of pianist and conducto
Emilio De Mercato
for the 100th anniversary of the death of Renoir. * *

* ttp://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/78705/rec/222 ''Impressionism: a centenary exhibition'' an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Renoir (p. 179–200)
''Renoir works at the Art Institute of Chicago''
a digital catalogue * * * , (1:49)

* , (6:14)

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