PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR VINTAGE FRENCH SEATED WOMAN LITHOGRAPH OLD MODERN ART

Description: PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR (French 1841-1919) MEDIUM: LITHOGRAPH SEATED WOMAN. MADE IN FRANCE PLATE SIGNED BY PIERRE RENOIR LIMITED EDITION CIRCA 1960s EXCELLENT OVERALL CONDITION. DIMENSIONS INCLUDING THE FRAME: 21” H x 17” W DIMENSIONS WITHOUT THE FRAME: 9” H x 8” W Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919) was active/lived in France. Pierre Renoir is known for Impressionist and post-impressionist figure and landscape painting. The son of a bespoke tailor and a dressmaker, Renoir's eye for sartorial detail surely informed the portraiture that played an integral role in his oeuvre. Once described by Camille Pissarro as the 'portraitiste éminent' of Paris, formal commissions paid towards his early artistic education, borne by his introduction to fashionable collectors through the publisher Georges Charpentier. These commissions supported him wholly between 1876-1880, after which the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel began to regularly purchase his work. Renoir's skill in portraiture was noted by his peers from the outset, as Théodore Duret wrote in his introduction to the artist's first one-man show at Durand-Ruel in 1883: '[In Renoir] we recognize at first sight the ability to paint woman in all her grace and delicacy, which has led him to excel particularly in portraits. The artist has fully displayed this gift of charm from the beginning, and it is in his ability as a painter and colorist that we must observe his progress and development (B.E. White, Renoir, His Life, Art, and Letters, New York, 1984, p. 132). Renoir was born on February 25, 1841, in the small manufacturing town of Limoges. His family moved to Paris when he was four years old. Gounod advised him to become a musician, but Renoir felt more compulsion toward the graphic arts. At thirteen, he joined a ceramic establishment where he painted flowers on porcelain. Later, he supported himself by decorating fans. In 1861, he joined the Gleyre atelier, where Sisley, Monet, and Bazille studied. None of them was pleased there, but Renoir especially was out of sympathy with the academic atmosphere of the place. When the master accused him of seeking amusement from painting, he replied that, of course, he did, or he would otherwise abandon the pursuit. After a year, he began to work without a teacher, adapting Courbet's trick of using a palette knife and painting with purer and lighter colors. He first exhibited in 1868; he also participated in the famous Nadar exhibition of Impressionists in 1874. He depended on portraiture for his living until the auctions of his works in 1875 and 1877, which brought him some independence and enabled him to travel. In 1883, a sort of break occurred in his work. He felt he had gone to the end of Impressionism; he was concluding that he did not know how to paint or draw. This bewilderment and discouragement, though exaggerated, had a beneficial effect, for Renoir reviewed his methods, again studied the works of old masters whom he loved, and went on painting pictures better than before. By the 1890s, Renoir was well settled into family life. Owing to his delicate bronchial tubes, he and his wife, with their young son Pierre, spent the winters by the Mediterranean and often, in summer, visited seaside spots on the Channel. In 1893, a second son, Jean, was born. Jean Renoir was to become the now-famous movie director. Suffering from failing eyesight in his later years, Renoir began to use stronger colors. His last years were spent in Provence, where he continued to paint, although he could only get about in a wheelchair, and his hand was so crippled with arthritis that his brush had to be strapped to his wrist. He could no longer get far from the house, but finding he could paint every day, he was contented. He died in Cagnes. Museums: Dixon Gallery and Gardens (Memphis, TN) Flint Institute of Arts (Flint, MI) Minnesota Marine Art Museum (Winona, MN) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA) Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY) Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Loretto, PA) The Barnes Foundation (Merion, PA) University of Saint Joseph Art Gallery (West Hartford, CT)

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Location: Pasadena, California

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