PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR paintings

Dance at the Moulin de la Galette	Two Girls at the Piano	Luncheon of the Boating Party	Gabrielle with a Rose	Boating on the Seine	Claude Monet reading
The Box at the Opera	Tulipes	Near the Lake	Girl with a Hoop	Renoir's House at Essoyes	Spring Bouquet

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

February 25, 1841 - December 3, 1919

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Biography

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading figure in the development of the Impressionist style. Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, the child of a working class family. As a boy, he worked in a porcelain factory where his drawing talent led to him painting designs on china. He worked painting hangings for overseas missionaries, and painting on fans before he enrolled in art school. During those years, he often visited the Louvre to study the French master painters.

In 1862 he began studying art under Charles Gleyre in Paris. There he met Alfred Sisley, Frederic Bazille and Claude Monet. At times during the 1860s, he did not have enough money to buy paint. Although Renoir first exhibited paintings in 1864, recognition did not come for another 10 years due, in part, to the turmoil of the Franco-Prussian War. In the mid-1870s, he experienced his first acclaim when his work hung in the first Impressionist exhibition (1874).

Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and color. Unlike many Impressionists who focused on landscapes, he painted not only landscapes, but people in intimate and candid compositions, and made the female nude one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings.

A prolific painter, he made several thousand paintings. The warm sensuality of Renoir's style made his paintings some of the most well known and frequently reproduced works in the history of art. His early works were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling colour and light. By the mid-1880s, however, he had broken with the movement to apply a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings, particularly of women (e.g., Bathers, 1884-87).

In 1919, Renoir visited the Louvre to see his paintings hanging with the old masters. Pierre-Auguste Renoir died in the village of Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, on December 3, 1919. Two of Renoir's paintings have sold for more than $70 million. Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre sold for $78.1 million in 1990.

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