About This Theme: Renoir Preferences Renoir Theme Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841–December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau." 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. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings. His initial paintings show the influence of the colorism of Eugène Delacroix and the luminosity of Camille Corot. He also admired the realism of Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet, and his early work resembles theirs in his use of black as a color. As well, Renoir admired Edgar Degas' sense of movement.

Another painter Renoir greatly admired was the 18th century master François Boucher. 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 still a 'student' piece, already Renoir's heightened personal response to female sensuality is present. The model was Lise Tréhot, then the artist's mistress and inspiration for a number of paintings. In the late 1860s, through the practice of painting light and water en plein air (in the open air), he and his friend Claude Monet 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.

Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876 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. 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, such as The Bathers, which was created during 1884–87. It was a trip to Italy in 1881, when he saw works by Raphael and other Renaissance masters, that convinced him that he was on the wrong path, and for the next several years he painted in a more severe style, in an attempt to return to classicism. This is sometimes called his "Ingres period," as he concentrated on his drawing and emphasized the outlines of figures.

Girls at the Piano, 1892, Musée d'Orsay, Paris After 1890, however, he changed direction again, returning to the use of thinly brushed color which dissolved outlines as in his earlier work. From this period onward he concentrated especially on monumental nudes and domestic scenes, fine examples of which are Girls at the Piano, 1892, and Grandes Baigneuses, 1918–19. The latter painting is the most typical and successful of Renoir's late, abundantly fleshed nudes. A prolific artist, he made 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, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Many of Renoir's paintings are nudes, but when it came time to create this theme, I considered if nudes—even tasteful, artistic ones—would be appropriate for Atlas Quest, and finally decided to limit their use only to members who are a part of the Pin-ups group.

If you want Renoir's nudes included in this theme, add yourself to the group from the Miscellaneous Preferences page. Likewise, if you do not want nudes showing up, make sure you are not in the Pin-ups group. The Theater Box Pierre Auguste Renoir Biography Pierre Auguste Renoir Biography Self Portrait Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, the child of a working class family. As a boy, he worked in a porcelain factory where his drawing talents led to him being chosen to paint designs on fine china. He also painted hangings for overseas missionaries and decorations on fans before he enrolled 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. There he met Alfred Sisley, Frédéric Bazille, and Claude Monet. At times during the 1860s, he did not have enough money to buy paint. Although Renoir first started exhibiting paintings at the Paris Salon in 1864, recognition did not come for another ten years, due, in part, to the turmoil of the Franco-Prussian War.

During the Paris Commune in 1871, while he painted on the banks of the Seine River, some members of a commune group thought he was a spy, and were about to throw him into the river when a commune leader, Raoul Rigault, recognized Renoir as the man who had protected him on an earlier occasion. In 1874, a ten-year friendship with Jules Le Coeur and his family ended, and Renoir lost not only the valuable support gained by the association, but a generous welcome to stay on their property near Fontainebleau and its scenic forest. This loss of a favorite painting location resulted in a distinct change of subjects. Maturity Joseph Durand Ruel Renoir experienced his initial acclaim when six of his paintings hung in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. In the same year two of his works were shown with Durand-Ruel in London. In 1881, he traveled to Algeria, a country he associated with Eugène Delacroix, then to Madrid, in Spain, to see the work of Diego Velázquez. Following that he traveled to Italy to see Titian's masterpieces in Florence, and the paintings of Raphael in Rome.

On January 15, 1882 Renoir met the composer Richard Wagner at his home in Palermo, Sicily. Renoir painted Wagner's portrait in just thirty-five minutes. In the same year, Renoir convalesced for six weeks in Algeria after contracting pneumonia, which would cause permanent damage to his respiratory system. In 1883, he spent the summer in Guernsey, creating fifteen paintings in little over a month. Most of these feature Moulin Huet, a bay in Saint Martin's, Guernsey. Guernsey is one of the Channel Islands in the English Channel, and it has a varied landscape which includes beaches, cliffs, bays, forests, and mountains. These paintings were the subject of a set of commemorative postage stamps, issued by the Bailiwick of Guernsey in 1983.

Dance At Bougival While living and working in Montmartre, Renoir employed as a model Suzanne Valadon, who posed for him ( The Bathers, 1885-7 ; Dance at Bougival, 1883 ) and many of his fellow painters while studying their techniques; eventually she became one of the leading painters of the day. In 1887, a year when Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee, and upon the request of the queen's associate, Phillip Richbourg, he donated several paintings to the "French Impressionist Paintings" catalog as a token of his loyalty. In 1890 he married Aline Victorine Charigot, who, along with a number of the artist's friends, had already served as a model for Les Déjeuner des canotiers ( Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1881 ), and with whom he had already had a child, Pierre, in 1885. After his marriage 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, one of whom, Jean, became a filmmaker of note and another, Pierre, became a stage and film actor. Later years Around 1892, Renoir developed rheumatoid arthritis. In 1907, he moved to the warmer climate of "Les Collettes," a farm at Cagnes-sur-Mer, close to the Mediterranean coast. Renoir painted during the last twenty years of his life, even when arthritis severely limited his movement, and he was wheelchair-bound. He developed progressive deformities in his hands and ankylosis of his right shoulder, requiring him to adapt his painting technique. In the advanced stages of his arthritis, he painted by having a brush strapped to his paralyzed fingers. During this period he created sculptures by directing an assistant who worked the clay. Renoir also used a moving canvas, or picture roll, to facilitate painting large works with his limited joint mobility. In 1919, Renoir visited the Louvre to see his paintings hanging with the old masters. He died in the village of Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, on December 3.

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. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings. His initial paintings show the influence of the colourism of Eugène Delacroix and the luminosity of Camille Corot. He also admired the realism of Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet, and his early work resembles theirs in his use of black as a color. As well, Renoir admired Edgar Degas' sense of movement. Another painter Renoir greatly admired was the 18th century master François Boucher. Portrait Of Lise With Umbrella 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 still a 'student' piece, already Renoir's heightened personal response to female sensuality is present. The model was Lise Tréhot, then the artist's mistress and inspiration for a number of paintings. In the late 1860s, through the practice of painting light and water en plein air (in the open air), he and his friend Claude Monet 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 ( La Grenouillère, 1869 ). One of the best known Impressionist works is Renoir's 1876 Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Le Bal au 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. Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pierre-Auguste Renoir For other persons named Renoir, see Renoir (disambiguation) .

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Nude (painting) , 1910 Pierre-Auguste Renoir ( February 25 , 1841 – December 3 , 1919 ) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau ". [1] Contents [ edit ] Youth Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges , Haute-Vienne , France , the child of a working class family. As a boy, he worked in a porcelain factory where his drawing talents led to him being chosen to paint designs on fine china. [2] He also painted hangings for overseas missionaries and decorations on fans before he enrolled in art school. [3] During those early years, he often visited the Louvre to study the French master painters. The Theater Box, 1874 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Courtauld Institute Galleries , London In 1862 he began studying art under Charles Gleyre in Paris .

There he met Alfred Sisley , Frédéric Bazille , and Claude Monet . [4] At times during the 1860s, he did not have enough money to buy paint. Although Renoir first started exhibiting paintings at the Paris Salon in 1864, [5] recognition did not come for another ten years, due, in part, to the turmoil of the Franco-Prussian War . During the Paris Commune in 1871, while he painted on the banks of the Seine River , some members of a commune group thought he was a spy, and were about to throw him into the river when a commune leader, Raoul Rigault, recognized Renoir as the man who had protected him on an earlier occasion. [6] In 1874, a ten-year friendship with Jules Le Coeur and his family ended, [7] and Renoir lost not only the valuable support gained by the association, but a generous welcome to stay on their property near Fontainebleau and its scenic forest . This loss of a favorite painting location resulted in a distinct change of subjects.

[ edit ] Maturity Renoir experienced his initial acclaim when six of his paintings hung in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. In the same year two of his works were shown with Durand-Ruel in London. [7] The Swing (La Balançoire), 1876, oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay , Paris In 1881, he traveled to Algeria , a country he associated with Eugène Delacroix , [8] then to Madrid , to see the work of Diego Velázquez . Following that he traveled to Italy to see Titian 's masterpieces in Florence and the paintings of Raphael in Rome . On January 15 , 1882 Renoir met the composer Richard Wagner at his home in Palermo , Sicily . Renoir painted Wagner's portrait in just thirty-five minutes. In the same year, Renoir convalesced for six weeks in Algeria after contracting pneumonia, which would cause permanent damage to his respiratory system. [9] In 1883, he spent the summer in Guernsey , creating fifteen paintings in little over a month.

Most of these feature Moulin Huet, a bay in Saint Martin's, Guernsey . Guernsey is one of the Channel Islands in the English Channel , and it has a varied landscape which includes beaches, cliffs, bays, forests, and mountains. 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 as a model Suzanne Valadon , who posed for him (The Bathers, 1885-7; Dance at Bougival , 1883) [10] and many of his fellow painters while studying their techniques; eventually she became one of the leading painters of the day. In 1887, a year when Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee, and upon the request of the queen's associate, Phillip Richbourg, he donated several paintings to the "French Impressionist Paintings" catalog as a token of his loyalty.

In 1890 he married Aline Victorine Charigot , who, along with a number of the artist's friends, had already served as a model for Les Déjeuner des canotiers ( Luncheon of the Boating Party , 1881), and with whom he already had a child, Pierre, in 1885. [9] After his marriage 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, one of whom, Jean , became a filmmaker of note and another, Pierre , became a stage and film actor. Girls at the Piano, 1892, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Musée d'Orsay , Paris. [ edit ] Later years Around 1892, Renoir developed rheumatoid arthritis . In 1907, he moved to the warmer climate of "Les Collettes," a farm at Cagnes-sur-Mer, close to the Mediterranean coast. [11] Renoir painted during the last twenty years of his life, even when arthritis severely limited his movement, and he was wheelchair-bound.

He developed progressive deformities in his hands and ankylosis of his right shoulder, requiring him to adapt 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, [12] but this is erroneous; Renoir remained able to grasp a brush, although he required an assistant to place it in his hand. [13] The wrapping of his hands with bandages, apparent in late photographs of the artist, served to prevent skin irritation. [13] During this period he created sculptures by cooperating with a young artist, Richard Guino , who worked the clay. Renoir also used a moving canvas, or picture roll, to facilitate painting large works with his limited joint mobility. [13] In 1919, Renoir visited the Louvre to see his paintings hanging with the old masters. He died in the village of Cagnes-sur-Mer , Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur , on December 3.

[ edit ] Artworks Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette), 1876, Pierre-Auguste Renoir 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. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings. His initial paintings show the influence of the colorism of Eugène Delacroix and the luminosity of Camille Corot . He also admired the realism of Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet , and his early work resembles theirs in his use of black as a color. As well, Renoir admired Edgar Degas ' sense of movement. Another painter Renoir greatly admired was the 18th century master François Boucher . [14] 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 still a 'student' piece, already Renoir's heightened personal response to female sensuality is present. The model was Lise Tréhot, then the artist's mistress and inspiration for a number of paintings. [15] In the late 1860s, through the practice of painting light and water en plein air (in the open air), he and his friend Claude Monet 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 (La Grenouillère, 1869). [16] [17] One of the best known Impressionist works is Renoir's 1876 Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette ( Le Bal au 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.

On the Terrace, oil on canvas, 1881, Art Institute of Chicago The works of his early maturity were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling colour 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, such as The Bathers, which was created during 1884-87. It was a trip to Italy in 1881, when he saw works by Raphael and other Renaissance masters, that convinced him that he was on the wrong path, and for the next several years he painted in a more severe style, in an attempt to return to classicism. [18] This is sometimes called his " Ingres period", as he concentrated on his drawing and emphasized the outlines of figures. [19] After 1890, however, he changed direction again, returning to the use of thinly brushed color which dissolved outlines as in his earlier work.

From this period onward he concentrated especially on monumental nudes and domestic scenes, fine examples of which are Girls at the Piano, 1892, and Grandes Baigneuses, 1918-19. The latter painting is the most typical and successful of Renoir's late, abundantly fleshed nudes. [20] A prolific artist, he made 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 , near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . [ edit ] Posthumous prints In 1919, Ambroise Vollard , a renowned art dealer, published a book on the life and work of Renoir, La Vie et Oeuvre de Pierre Auguste Renoir, in an edition of 1000 copies. In 1986, Vollard's heirs started reprinting the copper plates, generally etchings with hand applied watercolor . These prints are signed by Renoir in the plate and are embossed “Vollard” in the lower margin.

They are unnumbered, undated and not signed in pencil. [ edit ] Posthumous sales Two of Renoir's paintings have sold for more than $ 70 million. Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre sold for $ 78.1 million in 1990.

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As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."[1] Biography Youth Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, the child of a working class family. As a boy, he worked in a porcelain factory where his drawing talents led to him being chosen to paint designs on fine china.[2] He also painted hangings for overseas missionaries and decorations on fans before he enrolled in art school.[3] During those early years, he often visited the Louvre to study the French master painters. The Theater Box, 1874 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London In 1862, he began studying art under Charles Gleyre in Paris. There he met Alfred Sisley, Frédéric Bazille, and Claude Monet.[4] At times during the 1860s, he did not have enough money to buy paint.

Although Renoir first started exhibiting paintings at the Paris Salon in 1864,[5] recognition did not come for another ten years, due, in part, to the turmoil of the Franco-Prussian War. During the Paris Commune in 1871, while he 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.[6] In 1874, a ten-year friendship with Jules Le Cœur and his family ended,[7] and Renoir lost not only the valuable support gained by the association, but a generous welcome to stay on their property near Fontainebleau and its scenic forest. This loss of a favorite painting location resulted in a distinct change of subjects. Maturity Renoir experienced his initial acclaim when six of his paintings hung in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874.

In the same year, two of his works were shown with Durand-Ruel in London.[7] The Swing (La Balançoire), 1876, oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay, Paris In 1881, he traveled to Algeria, a country he associated with Eugène Delacroix,[8] then to Madrid, to see the work of Diego Velázquez. Following that, he traveled to Italy to see Titian's masterpieces in Florence and the paintings of Raphael in Rome. On 15 January 1882 Renoir met the composer Richard Wagner at his home in Palermo, Sicily. Renoir painted Wagner's portrait in just thirty-five minutes. In the same year, Renoir convalesced for six weeks in Algeria after contracting pneumonia, which permanently damaged his respiratory system.[9] In 1883, he spent the summer in Guernsey, creating fifteen paintings in little over a month. Most of these feature Moulin Huet, a bay in Saint Martin's, Guernsey.

Guernsey is one of the Channel Islands in the English Channel, and it has a varied landscape that includes beaches, cliffs, bays, forests, and mountains. 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 as a model Suzanne Valadon, who posed for him (The Bathers, 1885–87; Dance at Bougival, 1883)[10] and many of his fellow painters while studying their techniques; eventually she became one of the leading painters of the day. In 1887, the year when Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee, and upon the request of the queen's associate, Phillip Richbourg, he donated several paintings to the "French Impressionist Paintings" catalog as a token of his loyalty.

In 1890, he married Aline Victorine Charigot, 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, 1881), and with whom he already had a child, Pierre, in 1885.[9] After his marriage, 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, one of whom, Jean, became a filmmaker of note and another, Pierre, became a stage and film actor. Girls at the Piano, 1892, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Later years Around 1892, Renoir developed rheumatoid arthritis. In 1907, he moved to the warmer climate of "Les Collettes," a farm at Cagnes-sur-Mer, close to the Mediterranean coast.[11] Renoir painted during the last twenty years of his life, even when arthritis severely limited his movement, and he was wheelchair-bound.

He developed progressive deformities in his hands and ankylosis of his right shoulder, requiring him to adapt 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,[12] but this is erroneous; Renoir remained able to grasp a brush, although he required an assistant to place it in his hand.[13] The wrapping of his hands with bandages, apparent in late photographs of the artist, served to prevent skin irritation.[13] During this period, he created sculptures by cooperating with a young artist, Richard Guino, who worked the clay. Renoir also used a moving canvas, or picture roll, to facilitate painting large works with his limited joint mobility.[13] In 1919, Renoir visited the Louvre to see his paintings hanging with the old masters. He died in the village of Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, on December 3.

Artworks Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Bal du moulin de la Galette), 1876, Pierre-Auguste Renoir 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. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings. His initial paintings show the influence of the colorism of Eugène Delacroix and the luminosity of Camille Corot. He also admired the realism of Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet, and his early work resembles theirs in his use of black as a color. As well, Renoir admired Edgar Degas' sense of movement. Another painter Renoir greatly admired was the 18th century master François Boucher.[14] 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 still a 'student' piece, already Renoir's heightened personal response to female sensuality is present. The model was Lise Tréhot, then the artist's mistress and inspiration for a number of paintings.[15] In the late 1860s, through the practice of painting light and water en plein air (in the open air), he and his friend Claude Monet discovered that the color of shadows is not brown or black, but the reflected color of the objects surrounding them, an effect today known as diffuse reflection. Several pairs of paintings exist in which Renoir and Monet, working side-by-side, depicted the same scenes (La Grenouillère, 1869).[16][17] 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. On the Terrace, oil on canvas, 1881, Art Institute of Chicago The works of his early maturity were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling colour 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, such as The Bathers, which was created during 1884–87. It was a trip to Italy in 1881, when he saw works by Raphael and other Renaissance masters, that convinced him that he was on the wrong path, and for the next several years he painted in a more severe style, in an attempt to return to classicism.[18] This is sometimes called his "Ingres period", as he concentrated on his drawing and emphasized the outlines of figures.[19] After 1890, however, he changed direction again, returning to thinly brushed color to dissolve outlines as in his earlier work.

From this period onward he concentrated especially 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.[20] A prolific artist, he made 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, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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 etchings with hand applied watercolor. These prints are signed by Renoir in the plate and are embossed “Vollard” in the old fashion low margin.

They are unnumbered, undated and not signed in pencil. Posthumous sales Two of Renoir's paintings have sold for more than US$70 million. Bal au moulin de la Galette sold for $78.1 million in 1990. Selected works * The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes (1908–1914) * The Concert (1918) * Claude Roger-Marx (1952). Les Lithographies de Renoir. Monte-Carlo: Andre Sauret. * Joseph G. Stella (1975). The Graphic Work of Renoir: Catalogue Raisonne. London: Lund Humphries. * Jean Leymarie et Michel Melot (1971). Les Gravures Des Impressionistes, Manet, Pissarro, Renoir, Cezanne, Sisley. Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques. * Michel Melot (1996). The Impressionist Print. New Haven: Yale University Press. * Theodore Duret (1924). Renoir. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune.

* Paul Haeserts (1947). Renoir Sculpteur. Bruxelles: Hermès. References 1. ^ Read, Herbert: The Meaning of Art, page 127. Faber, 1931. 2. ^ Renoir, Jean: Renoir, My Father, pages 57–67. Collins, 1962. 3. ^ Vollard, Ambroise: Renoir, An Intimate Record, pages 24–29. Knopf, 1925. 4. ^ Vollard, page 30. 5. ^ Wadley, Nicholas: Renoir, A Retrospective, page 15. Park Lane, 1989. 6. ^ Renoir, Jean, pages 118–21. Different and less life-threatening versions are offered by Paul Valéry and Vollard. In all accounts, however, their re-acquaintance led to great celebration. 7. ^ a b Wadley, page 15. 8. ^ Poulet, A. L., & Murphy, A. R. (1979).

Corot to Braque: French Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, page 117. Boston: The Museum. ISBN 0-87846-134-5. 9. ^ a b Wadley, page 25. 10. ^ Wadley, pages 371, 374. 11. ^ Wadley, page 28. 12. ^ André, Albert: Renoir. Crés, 1928. 13. ^ a b c Boonen, A.; van de Rest, J.; Dequeker, J.; van der Linden, S.: "How Renoir Coped with Rheumatoid Arthritis". British Medical Journal, 1997:315:1704–1708. 14. ^ Rey, Robert: La Peinture française à la fin du XIXe siècle, la renaissance du sentiment classique : Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Les Beaux-Arts, Van Oest, 1931 (thesis). 15.

^ "From the Tour: Mary Cassatt", August Renoir. Accessed March 07, 2007. 16. ^ Image:Renoir11.jpg — Wikimedia Commons at commons.wikimedia.org 17. ^ Image:Claude Monet La GrenouillÃ©re.jpg — Wikimedia Commons at commons.wikimedia.org 18. ^ Clark, Kenneth: The Nude, pages 154–61. Penguin, 1960. 19. ^ Asked late in life if he felt an affinity to Ingres, he responded: "I should very much like to". Rey, quoted in Wadley, page 336. 20. ^ " For me, Renoir becomes a really great artist in the late nudes, above all in Les Grandes Baigneuses". David Sylvester, quoted by Wadley, page 378. Pierre-Auguste Renoir on ArtStack - art online The Theater Box , 1874, Courtauld Institute Galleries , London Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges , Haute-Vienne , 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 Paris , 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, Charles Gounod , who was the choir-master 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 porcelain factory. [2] [3] Although Renoir displayed a talent for his work, he frequently tired of the subject matter and sought refuge in the galleries of the Louvre . 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 porcelain factory adopted mechanical reproduction processes in 1858, Renoir was forced to find other means to support his learning.

[3] Before he enrolled in art school, he also painted hangings for overseas missionaries and decorations on fans. [4] In 1862, he began studying art under Charles Gleyre in Paris. There he met Alfred Sisley , Frédéric Bazille , and Claude Monet . [5] At times, during the 1860s, he did not have enough money to buy paint. Renoir had his first success at the Salon of 1868 with his painting Lise with a Parasol (1867), which depicted Lise Tréhot , his lover at the time. [6] Although Renoir first started exhibiting paintings at the Paris Salon in 1864, [7] recognition was slow in coming, partly as a result of the turmoil of the Franco-Prussian War . During the Paris Commune 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.

[8] In 1874, a ten-year friendship with Jules Le Cœur and his family ended, [9] and Renoir lost not only the valuable support gained by the association but also a generous welcome to stay on their property near Fontainebleau and its scenic forest . This loss of a favorite painting location resulted in a distinct change of subjects. Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette ( Bal du moulin de la Galette ), 1876 Renoir was inspired by the style and subject matter of previous modern painters Camille Pissarro and Edouard Manet . [10] 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. [6] That same year, two of his works were shown with Durand-Ruel in London.

[9] Hoping to secure a livelihood by attracting portrait commissions, Renoir displayed mostly portraits at the second Impressionist exhibition in 1876. [11] 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. [11] 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. [6] In 1881, he traveled to Algeria , a country he associated with Eugène Delacroix , [12] then to Madrid , to see the work of Diego Velázquez . Following that, he traveled to Italy to see Titian 's masterpieces in Florence and the paintings of Raphael in Rome. On 15 January 1882, Renoir met the composer Richard Wagner at his home in Palermo , 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. [13] In 1883, Renoir spent the summer in Guernsey , one of the islands in the English Channel 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, 1884–87; Dance at Bougival , 1883) [14] 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 Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee , 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. In 1890, he married Aline Victorine Charigot, 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. [13] After his marriage, 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: Jean Renoir , who became a filmmaker of note, Pierre Renoir , who became a stage and film actor, and Claude Renoir, who became a ceramic artist. Later years[ edit ] Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1910 Around 1892, Renoir developed rheumatoid arthritis .

In 1907, he moved to the warmer climate of "Les Collettes," a farm at Cagnes-sur-Mer , close to the Mediterranean coast. [15] 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, [16] but this is erroneous; Renoir remained able to grasp a brush, although he required an assistant to place it in his hand. [17] The wrapping of his hands with bandages, apparent in late photographs of the artist, served to prevent skin irritation. [17] In 1919, Renoir visited the Louvre 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.

[17] 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 the village of Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur , on 3 December 1919. Two Sisters , oil on canvas, 1881, Art Institute of Chicago Girls at the Piano, 1892, Musée d'Orsay , Paris 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. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings. His initial paintings show the influence of the colorism of Eugène Delacroix and the luminosity of Camille Corot . He also admired the realism of Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet , and his early work resembles theirs in his use of black as a color.

Renoir admired Edgar Degas ' sense of movement. Another painter Renoir greatly admired was the 18th-century master François Boucher . [18] 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. [19] In the late 1860s, through the practice of painting light and water en plein air (outdoors), he and his friend Claude Monet 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 diffuse reflection . 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. 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 Raphael and other Renaissance masters, that convinced him that he was on the wrong path, and for the next several years he painted in a more severe style in an attempt to return to classicism. [20] Concentrating on his drawing and emphasizing the outlines of figures, he painted works such as The Large Bathers (1884–87; Philadelphia Museum of Art ) during what is sometimes called his " Ingres period". [21] 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. [22] 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 Philadelphia . Catalogue raisonné[ edit ] A five-volume catalogue raisonné of Renoir's works (with one supplement) was published by Bernheim-Jeune between 1983 and 2014. [23] Bernheim-Jeune are the only surviving major art dealers who were used by Renoir. The Wildenstein Institute are preparing, but have not yet published, a critical catalogue of Renoir's work.

[24] A disagreement between these two organizations concerning an unsigned work in Picton Castle was at the centre of the 2nd episode of the 4th series of Fake or Fortune . Posthumous prints[ edit ] 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, etchings with hand applied watercolor . 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[ edit ] Two of Renoir's paintings have sold for more than US$70 million. Bal au moulin de la Galette sold for $78.1 million in 1990.

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[ edit ] 1000+ images about " RENOIR " Pierre Auguste Renoir on Pinterest | Renoir, Pierre auguste renoir and Renoir paintings Umbrellas - Pierre-Auguste Renoir. This has long been a favourite of mine. There's such warmth in it despite the coolness of the blues. See More Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir ; French: ; 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 feminine sensuality, it has been said that “Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau .” [1] He was the father of actor Pierre Renoir (1885–1952), filmmaker Jean Renoir (1894–1979) and ceramic artist Claude Renoir (1901–1969). He was the grandfather of the filmmaker Claude Renoir (1913–1993), son of Pierre. Contents The Theater Box , 1874, Courtauld Institute Galleries , London Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges , Haute-Vienne , 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 Paris , 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, Charles Gounod , who was the choir-master 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 porcelain factory. [2] [3] Although Renoir displayed a talent for his work, he frequently tired of the subject matter and sought refuge in the galleries of the Louvre . 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 porcelain factory adopted mechanical reproduction processes in 1858, Renoir was forced to find other means to support his learning. [3] Before he enrolled in art school, he also painted hangings for overseas missionaries and decorations on fans. [4] In 1862, he began studying art under Charles Gleyre in Paris. There he met Alfred Sisley , Frédéric Bazille , and Claude Monet . [5] At times, during the 1860s, he did not have enough money to buy paint.

Renoir had his first success at the Salon of 1868 with his painting Lise with a Parasol (1867), which depicted Lise Tréhot , his lover at the time. [6] Although Renoir first started exhibiting paintings at the Paris Salon in 1864, [7] recognition was slow in coming, partly as a result of the turmoil of the Franco-Prussian War . During the Paris Commune 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. [8] In 1874, a ten-year friendship with Jules Le Cœur and his family ended, [9] and Renoir lost not only the valuable support gained by the association but also a generous welcome to stay on their property near Fontainebleau and its scenic forest . This loss of a favorite painting location resulted in a distinct change of subjects.

Adulthood Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette ( Bal du moulin de la Galette ), 1876 Renoir was inspired by the style and subject matter of previous modern painters Camille Pissarro and Edouard Manet . [10] 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. [6] That same year, two of his works were shown with Durand-Ruel in London. [9] Hoping to secure a livelihood by attracting portrait commissions, Renoir displayed mostly portraits at the second Impressionist exhibition in 1876. [11] 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. [11] 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. [6] In 1881, he traveled to Algeria , a country he associated with Eugène Delacroix , [12] then to Madrid , to see the work of Diego Velázquez . Following that, he traveled to Italy to see Titian ‘s masterpieces in Florence and the paintings of Raphael in Rome. On 15 January 1882, Renoir met the composer Richard Wagner at his home in Palermo , 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. [13] In 1883, Renoir spent the summer in Guernsey , one of the islands in the English Channel 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, 1884–87; Dance at Bougival , 1883) [14] 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 Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee , 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.

In 1890, he married Aline Victorine Charigot, 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. [13] After his marriage, 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: Jean Renoir , who became a filmmaker of note, Pierre Renoir , who became a stage and film actor, and Claude Renoir, who became a ceramic artist. Later years Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1910 Around 1892, Renoir developed rheumatoid arthritis . In 1907, he moved to the warmer climate of “Les Collettes,” a farm at Cagnes-sur-Mer , close to the Mediterranean coast. [15] 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, [16] but this is erroneous; Renoir remained able to grasp a brush, although he required an assistant to place it in his hand. [17] The wrapping of his hands with bandages, apparent in late photographs of the artist, served to prevent skin irritation. [17] In 1919, Renoir visited the Louvre 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. [17] 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 the village of Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur , on 3 December 1919. Artworks Girls at the Piano, 1892, Musée d’Orsay , Paris 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. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings. His initial paintings show the influence of the colorism of Eugène Delacroix and the luminosity of Camille Corot . He also admired the realism of Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet , and his early work resembles theirs in his use of black as a color. Renoir admired Edgar Degas ‘ sense of movement. Another painter Renoir greatly admired was the 18th-century master François Boucher . [18] 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. [19] In the late 1860s, through the practice of painting light and water en plein air (outdoors), he and his friend Claude Monet 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 diffuse reflection . 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. 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 Raphael and other Renaissance masters, that convinced him that he was on the wrong path, and for the next several years he painted in a more severe style in an attempt to return to classicism. [20] Concentrating on his drawing and emphasizing the outlines of figures, he painted works such as The Large Bathers (1884–87; Philadelphia Museum of Art ) during what is sometimes called his “ Ingres period”. [21] 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. [22] 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 Philadelphia . Catalogue raisonné A five-volume catalogue raisonné of Renoir’s works (with one supplement) was published by Bernheim-Jeune between 1983 and 2014. [23] Bernheim-Jeune are the only surviving major art dealers who were used by Renoir. The Wildenstein Institute are preparing, but have not yet published, a critical catalogue of Renoir’s work. [24] A disagreement between these two organizations concerning an unsigned work in Picton Castle was at the centre of the 2nd episode of the 4th series of 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, etchings with hand applied watercolor . 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 Two of Renoir’s paintings have sold for more than US$70 million. Bal au moulin de la Galette sold for $78.1 million in 1990. 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

Question: Who painted the famous paintings known as "Children at the Beach at Guernsey", "Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette", "The Swing" and "The Theater Box"?
Answer: Renoir