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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (/ r ɛ n ˈ w ɑːr /; [1] French: [pjɛʁ oɡyst ʁənwaʁ]; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.
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]
Despite Renoir's habit of distributing a sought after fashionable hat of the time amongst his models (the straw bonnet with a wide red ribbon top right is an example of this hat, called a timbale), he was unable to persuade his favourite sixteen-year-old model Jeanne Samary, who appears in La balançoire, to pose as principal for the painting ...
Renoir's treatment of this scene is emblematic of his approach during the 1870s, when he often left works in a preparatory ébauche state, with visible underpainting. [7] His use of contrasting warm and cool tones, achieved through combinations such as viridian green with alizarin crimson or viridian with cobalt blue , creates dynamic shadowing.
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]
The Swing (French: La Balançoire) is an oil-on-canvas painting made in the summer of 1876 by the French Impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.The painting depicts model Jeanne Samary, Norbert Goeneutte, and Renoir’s brother Edmond.
At the Theatre (La Première Sortie), also known as The First Outing, is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, created around 1876–1877. It was acquired by the National Gallery in 1923.
Pages in category "Paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.