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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR French 1841-1919 Tempera Oil

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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR French 1841-1919 Tempera Oil
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Tempera and oil on paper. Featuring expressionist style still. Signed and attr. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, .1841-1919). Signature on lower left bottom. Gallery stamp on verso. Accompanied with certificate. 10.4 x 7.6 inch (26.3 x 19.2 cm). Best known for portraiture, figurative work, and his series of voluptuous bathing women, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was among the first group of French Impressionist painters. In the 1860s, he painted en plein air with Claude Monet, Frédéric Bazille, and Alfred Sisley in the forest of Fontainebleau. Rejecting traditional methods of building paintings with layers of thin glazes, the Impressionists worked spontaneously to capture the fleeting effects of light using bright pigments, large brushstrokes, and thick impasto. By the late 1870s, dissatisfied with the spontaneity of Impressionism, Renoir moved toward a more traditional, less experimental approach. By the 1890s, Renoir’s paintings recall the rich color of Titian and Rubens and the sensual beauty of 18th-century French art. Renoir was celebrated in the early 20th century as one of the greatest modern French painters. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario Estate