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RENOIR, FIRMIN AUGUSTE (1841– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 101 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RENOIR, FIRMIN AUGUSTE (1841– ) , See also:French painter, was See also:born at See also:Limoges in 1841. In his See also:early See also:work he followed, with pronounced See also:modern modifications, certain traditions of the French 18th-See also:century school, more particularly of See also:Boucher, of whom we are reminded by the decorative tendency, the See also:pink and See also:ivory flesh tints and the facile technique of Renoir. In the 'seventies he threw himself into the impressionist See also:movement and became one of its leaders. In some of his paintings he carried the new principle of the See also:division of tones to its extreme, but in his best work, notably in some of his paintings of the nude, he retained much of the refined sense of beauty of See also:colour of the 18th century. Renoir has tried his skill almost in every genre—in See also:portraiture, landscape, See also:flower-See also:painting, scenes of modem See also:life and figure subject; and though he is perhaps the most unequal of the See also:great impressionists, his finest See also:works See also:rank among the masterpieces of the modern French school. Among these are some of his nude " Bathers," the " Rowers' See also:Luncheon," the " See also:Ball at the See also:Moulin de la Galette," " The See also:Box," " The See also:Terrace," " La Pensee," and the portrait of " Jeanne Samary." He is represented in the Caillebotte See also:room at the Luxembourg, in the collection of M. See also:Durand-Ruel, and in most of the collections of impressionist paintings in See also:France and in the See also:United States. Comparatively few of his works have come to See also:England, but the full range of his capacity was seen at the See also:exhibition of impressionist See also:art held at the See also:Grafton Galleries in See also:London in 1905. At the Viau See also:sale in See also:Paris in 1907, a See also:garden See also:scene by Renoir, " La Tonnelle," realized 26,000 frs., and a little See also:head, " Ingenue," 25,100 frs.

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