Pierre-Auguste Renoir Prints
1841–1919 · French · Impressionism
Wall art by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
24 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges in February 1841 and grew up in Paris, where at thirteen he was apprenticed to a porcelain factory, painting flowers and figures on plates, a training that left him with a lifelong taste for pearly, luminous colour. In 1862 he entered the studio of Charles Gleyre and met Monet, Sisley and Bazille, and through the later 1860s he and Monet painted side by side on the Seine, working out the broken brushwork of Impressionism. He showed six paintings at the first Impressionist exhibition in April 1874. Bal du moulin de la Galette of 1876, a Sunday dance in Montmartre, and Luncheon of the Boating Party of 1880 to 1881, set on a restaurant terrace at Chatou, are his largest statements of that style, with sunlight falling through leaves onto faces and clothes. In the 1880s he tightened his drawing after a journey to Italy, and in his last decades, crippled by rheumatoid arthritis and living at Cagnes-sur-Mer from 1907, he painted nudes and still lifes in warm reds. He died there in December 1919 having made several thousand paintings. Renoir's subjects are pleasure, company and light, and they bring exactly those things to a room.