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Pierre-Auguste Renoir Etching Femme Au Couchee Framed

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir Etching Femme Au Couchee Framed
This peaceful scene portrays a female nude resting on a bed. * * * Artist: Pierre-Auguste RenoirTitle: Femme Au Couchee Medium: Etching on paperImage size: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inchesFraming: Matted in ivory with black inner boarder in black decorative wood frameCondition: Excellent; a few corner nicks on the frameFrame size: 20 x 21 inches * * * * * * Artist Biography: * * Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a French painter who was born in Limoges France. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. He was a fellow student of Monet, Sisley and Bazille; he went on summer painting trips with them to Chailly and Fountainbleau. He studied the eighteenth century paintings in the Louvre and also met Corot, Millet and Diaz. In 1864 his work was first accepted at the Salon. During the 1870s he painted with Monet at Argenteuil and elsewhere, and came to know Cezanne, Degas, Pissarro, etc. In 1874 his work was included in the first Impressionist exhibition (and in three of the subsequent seven.) From the late 1870s on he enjoyed increased success at the Salons, especially with portraiture. Eventually, he became dissatisfied with Impressionism and felt renewed admiration for Ingres, Raphael and eighteenth-century art. During the 1880s he worked increasingly in the south of France. Renoir's early work as a porcelain painter reflects two constant characteristics of his art: an enormous natural facility and a dedication to eighteenth century standards of decoration and craftsmanship. Apart from the personality of his brushwork, the main distinction of his 1870s Impressionism was his preoccupation with the figure as subject matter and particularly with the gay vitality of Parisian life. Less rigorously introspective than Monet, he made his reputation at the Salons from the late 1970s with a series of fashionable portraits. Here his dexterity was combined with anecdotal charm. * * * Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art. *
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