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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a leading French Impressionist artist. In his depiction of feminine beauty, Renoir has been described as "the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."
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culture · French painter and sculptor (1841–1919) · painter · sculptor · illustrator · printmaker · draftsperson · architectural drafter · graphic artist · porcelain painter · lithographer · watercolorist · also Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Renoir, Pjer-Ogist Renoar, Pierre Auguste Renoir, August Renoir, Pierre August Renoir
Born 25 February 1841 · Died 3 December 1919 · Q39931
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2026· 1 entry
2018· 1 entry
The Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center in Hendersonville, Tennessee, United States, hosted Beauty Remains, an exhibition of his works
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2012· 1 entry
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
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1986· 1 entry
Vollard's heirs started reprinting the copper plates, generally, etchings with hand applied watercolor
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1919· 4 entries
Died 1919-12-03.
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Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1919).
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Renoir visited the Louvre to see his paintings hanging with those of the old masters
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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
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1911· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1911).
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1907· 1 entry
Moved to the warmer climate of "Les Collettes", a farm at the village of Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, close to the Mediterranean coast
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1901· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1901).
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1890· 1 entry
Married Aline Victorine Charigot, a dressmaker twenty years his junior, 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
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1887· 1 entry
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
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1883· 1 entry
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
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1881· 3 entries
When he saw works by Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, and other Renaissance masters, that convinced him that he was on the wrong path
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Traveled to Algeria, a country he associated with Eugène Delacroix, then to Madrid, to see the work of Diego Velázquez
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And with whom he had already had a child, Pierre, in 1885
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1879· 1 entry
That he met the man who was soon to become his main patron, Paul Bérard, who regularly invited him to paint and enjoy the Normandy seaside at the Château de Wargemont
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1876· 1 entry
A reviewer in Le Figaro wrote "Try to explain to Monsieur Renoir that a woman's torso is not a mass of decomposing flesh with those purplish green stains that denote a state of complete putrefaction in a corpse
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1874· 2 entries
“What are we supposed to do [reacting furiously on art-critic Jules Castagnary who proclaimed the so-called new School of Impressionism, 29 April 1874 in the Paris journal 'Le Siècle'] about these stupid literary people who will never understand that painting is a craft! You make it with materials, not ideas! The ideas come afterwards, when the painting is finished.”
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A ten-year friendship with Jules Le Cœur and his family ended, 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 scen
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1871· 1 entry
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 pro
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1864· 1 entry
Studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris (1862–1864).
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1862· 1 entry
Began studying art under Charles Gleyre in Paris
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1858· 1 entry
Renoir was forced to find other means to support his learning
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1844· 1 entry
Renoir's family moved to Paris in search of more favorable prospects
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1841· 1 entry
Born 1841-02-25.
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