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Category:	Romantic Art
Name:	Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Birth Year:	1841
Death Year:	1919
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Pierre-Auguste Renoir SEARCH NOW: by title by author Find your favorite art: barewalls.com Pierre-Auguste Renoir (born February 25, 1841), artist. One of the leading artists in the Impressionist movement and possibly the most popular artist in his circle, noted for his radiant, intimate paintings, particularly of the female nude. The "people's" Impressionist, the flip side of Monet. One can spend profitably a long time viewing The Boating Party, wishing one could join in that great party. Outstanding examples of his talents as a portraitist are Madame Charpentier and Her Children (1878, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) and Jeanne Samary (1879, Louvre). Other notable paintings by Renoir include La Loge (1874, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London); Woman with Fan (1875) and The Swing (1875), both in the Louvre, Paris; The Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.); The Umbrellas (National Gallery, London); and Vase of Chrysanthemums (1895, Musee de Beaux-Arts, Rouen) - one of the many still lifes of flowers and fruit he painted throughout his life. He died at Cagnes-sur-Mer, a village in the south of France, on December 3, 1919 and is buried in Essoyes Cimetiere, Essoyes, Aube, France. [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Pierre-Auguste Renoir.] The Great Books: Pierre-Auguste Renoir Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Pierre-Auguste Renoir. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Post Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books. <
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