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Fountain of Meursault, France
Mark Gingerich
Painting - 18.4 x 35.6 cm Painting - 7.25 x 14 inch
$1,450
Dr. Smith and The Unknown Sense, Old Asylum, Jackson, Mississippi, 1925
Noah Saterstrom
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 cm Painting - 30 x 40 inch
$6,000
Rue Norvins Montmartre
Marie France Garrigues
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$729
Le Moulin de la Galette
Marie France Garrigues
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$729
Nature morte avec des coquilles
Sergey Kovalenko
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,018
La jeune fille d'Honfleur
Ladamenrouge
Painting - 70 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 2 inch
$1,906
Just Waiting
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 56 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$1,065
Jardin d'hiver
Sergey Kovalenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,522
Portrait #206
Edgar Manuel Marcos
Painting - 50 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$3,139
Rencontre
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 56 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$1,065
Cafe de Flore, Evening Paris
Ruslana Levandovska
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.9 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.75 inch
$2,500
La Luz 19
Jose Ricardo Contreras Gonzalez
Painting - 30 x 39.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Hydrotherapy, Whitfield, Mississippi 1937
Noah Saterstrom
Painting - 91.4 x 61 cm Painting - 36 x 24 inch
$5,000
The Silent Backward Tracings
Andres Conde
Painting - 123.2 x 158.8 cm Painting - 48.5 x 62.5 inch
$14,000
Inspired by Auguste Renoir
Pierre Auguste Renoir, the French painter of bucolic, joyful scenes, was one of the leading figures of the Impressionist movement in the 19th century. Born in Limoges, Renoir spent his youth growing up in the center of Paris. From an early age, Renoir demonstrated musical and artistic prowess however, due to the family's financial circumstances, Renoir had to leave school at the age of thirteen to take up an apprenticeship in a porcelain factory to follow in his family's trade. In 1855, Renior began in a porcelain factory on rue du Temple, where the teenager was introduced to porcelain painting. It was the young Renoir's supervisor at the factory who recognized his artistic talent and encouraged his family to support his artistic ambitions.
Eight years later, Renoir had enough money to enter the École des Beaux-Arts in April 1862. While attending the school, he also attended Charles Gleyre's private studio where he became friends with fellow students Alfred Sisley, Frédéric Bazille and Claude Monet. Initially, Renoir's paintings were rejected by the juries of the Salons, which were the masters of the art market in the 19th century. With Monet, Sisley, Pissarro and several other contemporary artists, Renoir organized the first Impressionist exhibition in April 1874. Although the critical reaction to the exhibition was rather unfavorable, Renoir's work was relatively well received.
After mounting two successive Impressionist exhibitions, Renoir's work was finally accepted by the Salon and he became a successful painter known throughout France. Nowadays, Renoir is best known for his “nacrée" period of pearlescent painting of figures of pale flesh. Renoir's signature style of painting adopted a softer and smoother touch, with more fluidity and transparency effects that rendered his figures ethereal. Renoir left a considerable body of work in the wake of his prolific career: over 4,000 paintings, more than the works of Manet, Cézanne and Degas combined. Check out some artists on Artsper, inspired by the French Impressionist mastery of the paintbrush in bringing the subjects of his canvases to life.