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Beautiful etching, Pierre Auguste RENOIR (1841-1919), dating circa 1906.
Title: Femme nue couchee (tournée a droite).
Printed on laid paper. In neat condition. Image size: approx. 13x19 cm.
42.5x32.5 incl. frame.
Purchased by me in 2009 at the Bubb Kuyper auction house in Haarlem.
Previously sold by Galerie RG Michel in Paris.
Renoir, the son of a tailor and seamstress, moved with his family from Limoges to Paris in 1844. From 1854 to 1858 he was apprenticed to a porcelain manufacturer, where he painted rococo-style decorations. In 1862–63 he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Charles Gleyre, where he met Sisley, Pissarro, Monet, and Fantin-Latour. Renoir first exhibited at the Salon in 1864 and began working outside the home around this time. Courbet, Corot, and Daubigny were important early influences, although his progression toward a livelier, sketchier style was encouraged by the work of Monet and Manet. He took part in the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874. In 1881-82 Renoir traveled to Algeria and Italy, where his exposure to ancient and Renaissance art led him to introduce a new linear and sculptural direction into his Impressionism. After years of financial struggle, a retrospective at Durand-Ruel in 1892 brought greater popular success. Although his health began to fail in the late 1890s, Renoir continued to paint and even experiment with sculpture until his death.
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