Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Durand-Ruel picked an ideal moment to exhibit Renoir. Down the street the new Bignou Gallery had just opened with two important Renoirs as the high spots of its first exhibition; and the inventor of Argyrol, the most colorful collector in the U. S., irascible Dr. Albert C. Barnes of Merion, Pa. (TIME, March 26, 1934, et ante), last week published a large, authoritative, opinionated book on Renoir...
...pictures at the Bignou Gallery were excellent examples of the two styles by which most citizens remember Renoir. La Famille Henriot, painted about 1871, is a gay, sharply drawn canvas of a gentleman and two ladies seated in the dappled shade of a pear tree with two engaging poodles. Judgment of Paris, a swirling study in the pinks, reds, yellows of Paris (in a nightcap) and three rotund nudes, was painted in 1908 when Renoir was already an old man, deeply absorbed in the technique of broken color painting and already wracked with arthritis. The Durand-Ruel pictures were...
...Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges in February 1841, died in December 1919 at Cagnes-sur-Mer in the south of France. His first job was painting copies of 18th Century French pictures on fans and window shades for a Paris factory. Before he was 25 he knew most of the men who were to be his lifelong friends and associates in Impressionism: Monet, Cézanne, Sisley, Pissarro, Diaz. He enlisted in the cavalry for the Franco-Prussian war, but nothing happened to him. Very little happened to him all his life. He was a painter's painter...
...Madame Renoir was wife and business manager combined for the old gentleman. Auguste Renoir's passion for the female nude began to fade when he was nearing 70 and practically paralyzed by arthritis, but Mme Renoir knew that Renoir nudes were what the public wanted. The dimpled housemaids that she hired were used as models between meals.* Occasionally the old gentleman's mind would wander; he would fill the corners of his canvases with exciting studies of vegetables, fruit, flowers. These were carefully...
...Auguste Renoir's three sons are all living, moderately prominent. Pierre, the eldest, is a well known actor of the Théâtre I'Athénée, despite the paralyzed hand that the War gave him. Jean, the second, is a cinema director, lately produced a well reviewed film of Madame Bovary. Blond Claude, familiar to all art students in dozens of child portraits, is the plump & prosperous owner of the largest cinema in Antibes, L'Antipolis...