Internet Auction 695
This item is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/25/2019
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841-1919
Title: Two Women
Medium: Fine Art Giclee on Archival Paper
Image Size: Approximately 20 inches x 13 inches
Paper Size: Approximately 24 inches x 17 inches
Framed: Unframed
Biography: (b. Feb. 25, 1841, Limoges, France--d. Dec. 3, 1919, Cagnes)
French painter originally associated with the Impressionist movement. 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).
Renoir is perhaps the best-loved of all the Impressionists, for his subjects---pretty children, flowers, beautiful scenes, above all lovely women---have instant appeal, and he communicated the joy he took in them with great directness. `Why shouldn't art be pretty?', he said, `There are enough unpleasant things in the world.' He was one of the great worshippers of the female form, and he said `I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.' One of his sons was the celebrated film director Jean Renoir (1894-1979), who wrote a lively and touching biography (Renoir, My Father) in 1962.
Warranty: Item GUARANTEED to be as described
Auction Estimate: $150.00/$350.00