Celebrate Beauty with Renoir Paintings – Canvas Prints Hand Painted
The Franco-Prussian War in the 1860’s has made it difficult for Pierre-Auguste Renoir to gain recognition even after he started exhibiting his works at the famous Paris Salon in 1864. It took him around 10 years after that to be able to get some appreciation and acknowledgement.
Just like the other leading impressionists of their time, Renoir studied at Charles Gleyre studio where he met other famous painters such as Monet, Sisley and Bazille. With such illustrious company, how can he not produce amazing results?
Renoir was noted for his use of saturated colors along with vibrant light and his use of people as subject of his paintings. He loved to capture candid and intimate situations.
One of his famous Impressionist works is the “Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette“ also known as “Bal Du Moulin de la Galette“. He beautifully captured a scene where there was a crowd of people at a popular dance garden near his home in 1876. This particular painting was sold for $78.1M in 1990. It is one of the most expensive Renoir paintings ever sold posthumously.
Renoir broke from the Impressionist movement in the mid 1880s to focus on figure paintings. The works of Raphael and those Renaissance masterpieces inspired him. This is the period where his subject would primarily be on female nudity like the one he did in 1887 called “The Large Bathers” which the original can be found in Philadelphia Museum of Art and “After The Bath” which he painted in 1888.
These Renoir masterpieces would be great gifts for any occasion especially this coming Christmas. The good thing these days, you need not spend million of dollars to acquire such beauty as you can find them at our reproduction gallery. Most of popular Renoir paintings have been beautifully reproduced here. Find something you like this early and so it can be delivered to you just in time for the coming Holiday season.
November 04 2009 08:53 pm | Canvas Art Prints