Pierre-

Auguste

Renoir


"Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the World."

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Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) was a French painter originally associated with the Impressionist movement. His early works were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling color and light. 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.

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"Girls at the Piano" (1892) Oil on canvas, 116 x 90 cm - 45.7 x 35.4 in. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.

 

 

"Bal du Moulin de la Galette" (1876) Oil on canvas, 131 x 175 cm - 51.6 × 68.9 in. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.

  

 

"On the Terrace" (1881) Oil on canvas, 100.5 x 81 cm - 39 1/2 x 31 7/8 in. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

  

 

"The Luncheon of the Boating Party" (1881) Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 172.7 cm - 51 x 68 in. Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, DC., USA.

  

 

"La loge (The Theater Box)" (1874) Oil on canvas, 80 x 63.5 cm - 31.5 x 25 in. Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, UK.

  

 

"Mme. Charpentier and her children" (1878) Oil on canvas, 153 × 190 cm - 60.2 × 74.8 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA.

  

 

"By the Water (also Near the Lake)" (circa 1880) Oil on canvas, 46.2 x 55.4 cm - 18.2 x 21.8 in. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

  

 

"Portrait of Charles and Georges Durand-Ruel" (1882) Oil on canvas, 65 × 81 cm - 25.6 x 31.9 in. Collection Durand-Ruel, Paris, France.

  

 

"Dance at Bougival" (circa 1882-83) Oil on canvas, 182 × 98 cm - 71.7 x 38.6 in. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

  

 

"Portrait of Ambroise Vollard" (1917) Oil on canvas, 102 x 83 cm - 40.2 x 32.7 in. Private collection.

  

 

"The Artist's Family" (1896) Oil on canvas, 173 x 140 cm - 68.1 x 55.1 in. The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA.

  

 

"Nude In The Sun" (between 1875 and 1876) Oil on canvas, 81 × 65 cm - 31.9 × 25.6 in. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.


Text source: 'Webmuseum' (www.ibiblio.org/wm).

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Related Term: Impressionism.


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