Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reminiscent of Renoir!" cried Judge Lie. "It has the breadth and simplicity suggestive of the French masters of the 19th Century...
Painting hard, occasionally exhibiting, Camille Pissarro soon joined a group of artists including Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne and Sisley who used to meet at a café known as Le Guerbois, on the Avenue de Clichy. In the oceans of talk at that café, the group gradually evolved theories of painting. They wanted to paint light, and they wanted to throw aside the moldy palette of the Academicians for pure tones, yellows, vermilions, emerald-greens. The friends of the café Guerbois had no name for them selves until April 15, 1874 when the Photographer Nadar lent them...
...President and guiding spirit of the Armory Show was the gentle and reserved Arthur B. Davies, painter of ethereal nudes, wearer of excruciatingly stiff collars. Artist Davies was a great & good friend of Miss Lizzie Bliss. Before the exhibition closed he had persuaded Miss Bliss to buy a Renoir, two Degas and two Redons. Through her friend Mrs. Rockefeller also became interested in modern art, finally began to buy canvases and drawings pointed out to her by the long pale fingers of Arthur B. Davies...
...Than Renoir, no man more profoundly influenced the group of painters who founded modern painting in the U. S. William J. Glackens has assiduously imitated Renoir most of his life. George Wesley Bellows and Robert Henri adopted Renoir's method of painting coal-black, "shoe-button eyes." Childe Hassam still experiments with Renoir's dappled color...
...Renoir, by Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia. Minton, Balch ($5). * One, known to all Cagnes-sur-Mer as Lili, married Son Jean Renoir, later became famed as Cinemactress Lili Hessling...