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 Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841 – December 3, 1919) was a French artist who painted in the impressionist style.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir died in the village of Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, on December 3, 1919.
Renoir painted even during the last 20 years of his life when rheumatoid arthritis severely hampered his movement, and he was wheelchair-bound.
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 PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR
Pierre Auguste Renoir first exhibited his paintings in Paris in 1864, but he did not gain recognition until 1874, at the first exhibition of painters of the new impressionist school, that he'd joined with other avant-garde artists.
Pierre Auguste and Aline Charigot Renoir had three sons which he loved to paint when they were young.
Pierre Auguste Renoir was born on February 25, 1841, to Léonard (1799-1874) and Marguerite Merlot Renoir in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France.
http://www.angelfire.com/wa3/skylarkofthemorning/page88.html

  
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir. - Olga's Gallery
Frederic Bazille at His Easel by Renoir and Portrait of Pierre-Auguste Renoir by Bazille.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges and brought up in Paris, where his father, a tailor with a large family, settled in 1845.
Renoir painted The Luncheon of the Boating party, in which the Fournaise family are painted with their friends.
http://www.abcgallery.com/R/renoir/renoirbio.html

  
 Renoir : Windsor Fine Art
In 1864 Renoir sent a painting to the Salon for the first time, where it was accepted and where he exhibited his works in 1865, 1869, 1870, and 1872.
Although Renoir painted in many styles during his early periods, his visit to La Grenouillére with Monet in the late 1860s saw the development of his painting style.
Renoir also exhibited at the exhibitions in 1876 and 1877 with Monet, Manet, Pissarro, Sisley, Berthe Morisot, and others.
http://www.windsorfineart.com/artists/renoir/renoir.html

  
 Renoir, Pierre Auguste on Encyclopedia.com
Renoir's portraits; While his impressionist colleagues painted landscapes and picnickers, Pierre Auguste Renoir portrayed his family, friends and socialites of his day.
Renoir's work is represented in most of the important galleries in the world.
Renoir went to work at the age of 13 in Paris as a decorator of factory-made porcelain, copying the works of Boucher.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/R/Renoir-P1.asp

  
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir Biography - Renoir Fine Art Inc.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY In the 1890s Renoir began to suffer from rheumatism, and from 1903 (by which time he was world-famous) he lived in the warmth of the south of France.
But Renoir's sculpture remained in the mind of his art dealer, Ambroise Vollard.
By this time Renoir had 'traveled as far as Impressionism could take me', and a visit to Italy in 1881-82 inspired him to seek a greater sense of solidarity in his work.
http://www.renoirinc.com/biography/artists/renoir.htm

  
 WetCanvas: Virtual Museum: Individual Artists: Pierre Auguste Renoir
Pierre Auguste Renoir was the son of a tailor from Limoges.
Renoir's Bather with Griffon painted in 1870 and exhibited in the Salon that year, belongs to this early group, which seem like preparatory work if they are thought of in context with Renoir's later career.
His father decided to move to Paris in 1845, where the young Renoir was sent to work at the age of 13 as an apprentice to a painter in a china-ware factory, where he learned to imitate the great Rococo painters of the 18th century.
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Museum/Artists/r/Pierre_Auguste_Renoir

  
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir Biography
Renoir became a member in the circle of young painters including Claude Monet (1840-1924), Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), and Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) each of who made their mark on the art world as great masters of impressionism.
In 1864, Renoir had his first success with a painting of the Esmeralda Dancing with her Goat around a Fire Illuminating the Entire Crowd of Vagabonds.
This philosophy is perhaps the reason behind the fact that Renoir's work may possibly be the most popular, well-known, and frequently reproduced images in the history of art.
http://www.allaboutartists.com/bios/renoir.html

  
 Island of Freedom - Pierre Auguste Renoir
Pierre Auguste Renoir, a French impressionist painter, was noted for his radiant, intimate paintings, particularly of the female nude.
Recognized by critics as one of the greatest and most independent painters of his period, Renoir is noted for the harmony of his lines, the brilliance of his color, and the intimate charm of his wide variety of subjects.
During the last 20 years of his life Renoir was crippled by arthritis; unable to move his hands freely, he continued to paint, however, by using a brush strapped to his arm.
http://www.island-of-freedom.com/RENOIR.HTM

  
 Renoir (1841 -1919) - French Impressionist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was undoubtedly one of the most prolific artists ever with about 6000 paintings completed during the 60 years he was active as an artist.
Interestingly Renoir's first home in Paris was an apartment in the Louvre which was still a royal palace and his involvement with the arts came with the realisation he had a beautiful singing voice.
Renoir's connection with these artists led to him meeting Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet as well as leading writers and critics.
http://www.theartgallery.com.au/ArtEducation/greatartists/Renoir/about

  
 MyStudios- Pierre Auguste Renoir
Renoir loved women and would boast that he painted with a part of his male anatomy.
Renoir always took a simple pleasure in whatever met his good-humored attention, but refused to let what he saw dominate what he wanted to paint.
While Monet fixed his attentions on the ever-changing patterns of nature, Renoir was particularly entranced by people and often painted friends and lovers.
http://www.mystudios.com/art/impress/renoir/renoir.html

  
 RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste
Renoir was born in Limoges, south-west France, where he began work as a painter on porcelain.
Renoir painted landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and modern life.
In 1869 he and Monet began sketching together, and Renoir began to use lighter colours.
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/artistBiography?artistID=598

  
 Pierre Auguste Renoir
Pierre Auguste Renoir is such a brilliant artist.
Pierre Auguste Renoir has a different kind of style than other artists.
Pierre Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, France on February 25, 1841.
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/art/renoir.htm

  
 Pierre Auguste Renoir
Of all the Impressionists, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was the artist most in love with the feel of paint....
A Century of Painting: From Renoir to Rothko
From Renoir to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie
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 Pierre-Auguste  Renoir 
Pierre Auguste Renoir, the genius and traditionalist of the Impressionist movement, and a follower in the grand line of Titian, Tintoretto, Rubens, Fragonard, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, and Ingres, was born in Limoges, the son of a tailor.
Renoir's love of painting was so great, that even in his final years, confined to bed with brushes bound to his crippled, arthritic wrists, he produced Olympian canvases with resonant colors.
By 1880, Renoir felt that he could go no further as an Impressionist, and in 1881 he went to Italy, staying at first in Venice, next in Rome where he studied Raphael's frescoes, and finally in Naples and Pompeii.
http://www.3d-dali.com/Artist-Biographies/Pierre_Auguste_Renoir.html

  
 The Impressionists
In 1862, Renoir decided to study painting seriously and entered the Atelier Gleyre, where he met Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, and Jean Frédéric Bazille.
During the next six years, Renoir's art showed the influence of Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet, the two most innovative painters of the 1850s and 1860s.
Throughout these early years, Renoir made frequent visits to the Louvre, where he studied the art of earlier French masters, particularly those of the 18th century-Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, and Jean Honoré Fragonard.
http://www.biography.com/impressionists/artists_renoir.html

  
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir's La Loge
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) a French impressionist painter noted for his radiant, intimate paintings, particularly of the female nude.
http://www.jssgallery.org/Other_Artists/Renoir/La_Loge.htm

  
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Biography
Renoir's art celebrates family (Claude and Renée, 1903), and the beauty of women.
After rejections from the Salon, Renoir exhibited at the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874, but sought fame at the Salon, where he showed his portraits.
Renoir visited Italy and North Africa in 1881-1882, painting in the south of France with Cézanne and Monet in 1882-1883.
http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/docs/bio_artistid4602_e.jsp

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Pierre Auguste Renoir (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
Pierre Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, France, in 1841.
Renoir was a rarity in that he was successful at painting in many styles.
The one portrait of Renoir in the book is done by Frederic Brazille (although I think he did a self-portrait of the back of his head in one of the paintings).
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0516200682?v=glance

  
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Renoir was by nature more solid than Monet, and while Monet fixed his attentions on the ever-changing patterns of nature, Renoir was particularly entranced by people and often painted friends and lovers.
Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, by Barbara Ehrlich White.
Renoir always took a simple pleasure in whatever met his good-humored attention, but he refused to let what he saw dominate what he wanted to paint.
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/R/renoir.html

  
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Renoir studied at a famous Paris academy, and in 1874, ten years after his first exhibit, he gained recognition at the New Impressionists' Exhibition.
But he still had an urge to paint, so he tied his paint brush to his arm and painted that way.
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ncarol/renoir.html

  
 Renoir, Pierre-Auguste : 1841 - 1919 - Impressionism, , Absolutearts.com
A French Impressionist painter and sculptor, Renoir moved to Paris with his family when he was 3 years old.
Renoir developed a style characteristically his own by the mid-1870s.
In 1881 Renoir traveled to Algiers and Italy.
http://www.absolutearts.org/masters/names/Renoir_Pierre-Auguste.html

  
 Auguste Renoir paintings gallery
Pierre-Auguste Renoir is a famous French painter, associated with the Impressionist movement along with his friends Monet, Sisley, and Bazille.
We have more than 200 paintings in gallery, many chosen prints for you to buy and also many books about Auguste Renoir and his paintings.
Since we wish Auguste Renoir Gallery to be "user friendly" feel free to send us your comments and suggestions so we could improve it further.
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 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Auguste Renoir was one of the co-founders of Impressionism.
Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges in France.
At the Gleyre's studio Renoir worked with other young artists with whom he had become friendly and these were the future Impressionist painters Claude Monet (1840-1924), Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) and Jean-Fre'de'ric Bazille (1841-1870).
http://dianeart.com/Renoir-Pierre-Auguste.html

  
 Pierre Auguste Renoir
Renoir was the first of the impressionists to enjoy popular success and his prints were produced in recognition of that success.
Oeuvre complet (Paris, Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1971); Theodore Duret, Renoir (Paris: Bernheim-Jeune,1924), Michel Melot, The Impressionist Print (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), Claude Roger-Marx, Les Lithographies de Renoir (Monte-Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1951), Joseph G. Stella, The Graphic Work of Renoir: Catalogue Raisonne (London: Lund, Humphries, n.d.).
Stella lists 60 prints (25 etchings and 35 lithographs) in his catalogue of Renoir's prints.
http://spaightwoodgalleries.com/Pages/Renoir.html

  
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Getty Museum)
With Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir helped found Impressionism, freeing painting from having to tell a story.
With success as a portrait painter, Renoir traveled widely.
With Impressionism in the late 1860s, Renoir began using broken brushstrokes, his color became lighter, and he composed his canvases in patches of colored light.
http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/bio/a620-1.html

  
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Feeling that he was sacrificing too much to the vagaries of ever-changing light and the atmospheric affects sought by Impressionism, Renoir moved away from the group during the 1880's and returned to a more classical style, in which line and form assumed an importance not found in his work of the previous decade.
They began to go on painting expeditions to the Forest of Fontainebleau, where Renoir was befriended by the painter Diaz, who advised him to drop black from his palette, and who also helped him to sell some of his work.
During the early years, Renoir and Monet sometimes worked side by side, painting the same scenes such as La Grenouillere (1869) and views at Argenteuil on the Seine, where the two painters spent the summer.
http://www.artnet.com/artist/14139/Pierre_Auguste_Renoir.html

  
 Open Directory - Arts: Art History: Artists: R: Renoir, Pierre Auguste
Artchive: Pierre Auguste Renoir - Short biography of the artist and an image gallery containing some of his works.
WebMuseum: Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Article on the artist and collection of paintings.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Olga's Gallery- Comprehensive collection of the images of Renoir's works with biography and historical comments.
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Art_History/Artists/R/Renoir,_Pierre_Auguste

  
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir is born on 25 February 1841 in the French city Limoges.
At the age of nineteen, Renoir is permitted to copy the famous paintings of the Louvre.
At the studio Renoir works with Monet, Sisley, and Bazille.
http://www.art-start.net/artistpages/par.asp

  
 Renoir, Pierre Auguste, why shouldn't art be pretty?
The Renoir family moved early to Paris, and Pierre was apprenticed at thirteen to paint porcelain.
In the 1890s, Pierre Renoir became rheumatic, and in 1903 (when already world famous), moved to the south of France.
Renoir underwent much financial hardship, but began to achieve success as a portrait painter in the late 1870s.
http://www.normandy-tapestry.com/french_art_posters/Renoir.htm

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