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A Box at the Theater (At the Concert), 1880, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, in 1841.His father, Léonard Renoir, was a tailor of modest means, so, in 1844, Renoir's family moved to Paris in search of more favorable prospects.
This is an incomplete list of paintings by Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Renoir painted about 4000 paintings that have sold at auction for as much as $78.1 million (in 1990). [1] [2] The largest collection of Renoir paintings is at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. [3]
Luncheon of the Boating Party (French: Le Déjeuner des canotiers) is an 1881 painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.Exhibited at the Seventh Impressionist Exhibition in 1882, it was identified as the best painting in the show by three critics. [2]
Bal du moulin de la Galette (commonly known as Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) is an 1876 painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces. [1]
Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children (also known as Madame Charpentier and Her Children) is an 1878 oil on canvas painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.It depicts Marguerite Charpentier, a French salonist, art collector, and advocate of the Impressionists, and her children Georgette and Paul.
Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne (French: Les patineurs à Longchamp) is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, created during the winter of 1868. The painting depicts a snowscape with many Parisians, young and old, spending leisure time on a frozen park lake.