Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (b. Feb. 25, 1841, Limoges, France--d. Dec. 3, 1919, Cagnes) French painter originally associated with the Impressionist movement. 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, ...
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Renoir, a great French Impressionist painter is said to have painted about 6000 pictures during his almost 60 years of active life as an artist including the famous 'The Luncheon of The Boating Party' and 'Le Moulin de la Galette'.
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The Story Behind the Masterpiece... Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880-1881 Oil on canvas Acquired 1923 About the Artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges on February 5, 1841. His father was a tailor and his mother a dressmaker. When Renoir was three, the family moved to Paris where he grew up and lived most of his life. From 1854 to 1858, Renoir was ...
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