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Renoir painting in later years with brushes tied to hand
Luncheon of the Boating Party, oil, 51″ x 68″, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
** Pierre Auguste Renoir was born February 25, 1841 in Limoges, France. He was a French painter and one of the central figures of the impressionist movement (a French art movement of the second half of the nineteenth century whose members sought in their works to represent the first impression of an object upon the viewer). His work is characterized by a richness of feeling and a warmth of response to the world and to the people in it.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (1841-1919)
“Girl with a Watering Can”
oil on canvas
41”x29”
Painted in 1876
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
His early works 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.
Renoir was so passionate about painting that he even continued when he was old and suffering from severe arthritis. Renoir then painted with the brush tied to his wrists.
** This information from “The Complete Works” website. Click on Renoir’s name above to read and see more.
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