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Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born on February 25, 1841 at Limoges, Haute-Vienne in France. He died on December 3, 1919 at a ripe age of 78 at Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in France.Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. He is known as a celebrator of beauty, especially about feminine sensuality.
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As a boy, Pierre-Auguste Renoir started work in a porcelain factory where his drawing talents earned him the place of painter to paint designs on fine china. He also painted hangings for and decorations on fans before he started his education in art school. During those early years, he often visited the Louvre to study the French master painters. In 1862 he began studying art under Charles Gleyre in Paris and met several well known artists. Due to the turmoil of the Franco-Prussian War, recognition averted Pierre-Auguste Renoir right from his first exhibitions of paintings at the Paris Salon in 1864.it was more than 10 years later that he got famous and recognized.
Renoir used vibrant light and saturated color in his paintings, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid poses. The female sensuality was one of the primary subjects in his paintings. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir painted details of a scene by free brush strokes of colors, giving the impression that his figures were softly blending with one another and their surrounding. A fine example of Renoir's early work and evidence of the influence of Courbet's realism is Diana, 1867. The painting is a naturalistic studio work and exhibited his heightened personal response to female sensuality. The model was Lise Tréhot, who was the artist's mistress and inspiration for a number of his other paintings.
In the late 1860s Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his friend Claude Monet practiced the art of painting light and water in the open air. They discovered that the color of shadows is not brown or black, but the reflected color of the objects surrounding them. Several pairs of paintings exist in which Renoir and Monet, working side-by-side, depicted the same scenes like the La Grenouillère in 1869. The Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876 is perhaps Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s best known Impressionist work. The painting depicts an open-air scene, crowded with people, at a popular dance garden on the Butte Montmartre, close to where he lived.
Some of his other famous works of Renoir include Woman with Fan, The Swing, Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (The Rowers' Lunch), Girl with a Watering Can, Bal au moulin de la Galette, Nude in the Sunlight, Madame Charpentier and Her Children, Two Women with Umbrellas, On the Terrace, Luncheon of the Boating Party, The Piazza San Marco, By the Seashore, Umbrellas, Dance at Bougival, Fog at Guernsey, Girl with a Hoop, Bathers, Young Girl with Daisies In the Meadow, The Apple Sellers, Two Girls at the Piano, Vase of Chrysanthemums, The Farm at Les Collettes, and The Concert. Two of Pierre-Auguste Renoir‘s paintings have sold for more than $70 million. One of them is the Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre which sold for $78.1 million in 1990.
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