Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a French painter who studied at the École des Beaux-Arts before meeting Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley, participating in first, second, third, and seventh Impressionist exhibitions...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a French painter who studied at the École des Beaux-Arts before meeting Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley, participating in first, second, third, and seventh Impressionist exhibitions of the 19th century. His early work is characterized as warm and colorful snapshots of real life. However, by the mid-1880’s he distanced himself from the impressionist movement by focusing on painting more structured compositions, inspired by the Renaissance artworks he saw while on a trip to Italy. His later work focuses on portraits, particularly of women. Even in his old age, he continued to paint although he suffered from arthritis, tying his paintbrushes to his wrists. He is most well known for making representational figurative and landscape paintings with lively brushstrokes. Renoir’s works reside at museums such as the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the National Gallery in London, among others.