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RENOIR, FIRMIN AUGUSTE (1841 )

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 101 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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