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RENOIR, PIERRE-AUGUSTE

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RENOIR, PIERRE-AUGUSTE
<b>322. PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR</b> (1841 - 1919) French painter and, with Monet, a leader of the Impressionists. He later changed his style, adopting a more formal perspective. Fine content A.L.S. 1p. 8vo., [n.p.], May 21, 1892 to a Mr. Rouart, in French. Renoir is angered by the appearance of a forgery, probably of one of his works, writing in part: "<i>...I've been thinking and thinking, impossible to uncover the author of this horrible fake ["carrotte"]. I don't know, it's someone who was lucky, he must have looked in the catalogue, I think, and I am very upset as you can well imagine...</i>". Fine.<b> $2,000-3,000</b>