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PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR

Born in Um"K'T,

ron "I a 'ai/or

Apprm,;,,'; '"

paint f"K,,/ain and

droJrat;". itt7",

]","$ A,,/i.,.

Gky', mmT

8""iU" Mo"n,

Siliry. Cbrltt<

and PiITllrru

&bihi" at Sdm

Sba= rrudiG ;;,j,b

8"";0,, En plein

air rrutlS" tritb

MOlIn

JI'<.o-h and "bibi"

aT impr,,,ionisr

At"". Ali'"

CbilTj~,

Trat',/J loAlpia.

Spain and Italy.

in flu",,,'; by

Rapb",~ Ruh<",

and I,./,,"'l"'=

Binh if JW/ Pi,",

&bibi" in NnIJ

);'ri

MarTi" Ali'"

Birth of"" J"'"

S<ri.UJiy dimh/,d

by ar,briti,

Binh if ron

Claud,

L'gim "I H.""u,-

l"Narb of Ah'n.

I)i,,"/b.arr

"nack in o,grt<r_

m"M,r

Uphill p.~th Through LongGr:><s (/876)

A land""!,, v:i,bfigur",jTom R"",ir)-purm Im!",,,i",,;,, p<riod

1{,,,,iniJant "Mann 'r \\%Il>ol"ics, it " .... probahJy paint.d during

"'" "'k ""m,,", ,ba' ,b, r~" arrim 'Pm! tog,tbn at Argrn""i/

W

jth 'he 'ITi,'~ 1 of ,he railw .. y. 'he J-Ic<k"id"d thatc,~ourw .. s nJ ""thes,,,,'.nt rot

b.t nks of the Seine ht:rond I'ari. tl-.: 11",I<,r, and that he would a""'''I'' to ""p.-es.

bec.ml: a pOIJUla.-.-I:SO'" j;:J.-cit), ~Jml mon: "" n:fUlir bj.. tonal ,dationshillS. Not

worle:rs. La G.-.::nouillc.-.:: at Cmissr"",1.J.-_Seinl: that he a hcted his I" II:"e: R""oi r k'l" to the

,,"'" a .-estomant built f""" sc,erll bo"s "~l<'] Lright {'olou« he had alwa),s fa,'om,,1. In his

tog",hcr, p" Jl'iding a dan"" no", in the late, ",orks, Renoi"s ""pc ri",,,,,tation bmught

e,·enings. T his ,,"1, thl: destination (jf Pie«e an oU'I. Juring of monumental nudes and

Augustl: Renoi.-and Claude ,'lunet une dar in sensual r (Jlmg wom"" with luminescent s kin.

1869 , ",h"" the two )'oung friends SCt up thei, U""'. "plUmi.ingl)', R""ui, had al""1)'S p.il1l<,<1

ea",l. tugcthe.-m pkin "ir and initiated the what pleased him and, ,ina: hi. dars

b.-.::.kthmugh to Imp,,::ssioni'm. of d",o.-ating fans in the Slrle of \\'Ut.,.~u,

Ill' 1 SSI, the r<"1r hI: turn"] fo.t), and bl:g;n F.-agonard and Boucher, his i mm""'" sli II

tra,elling "Jund Emope and Nonh Africa , and the ahilitr to comer cha.-m rmlained

Renoi, knew it w" time fo.-a .-eassesSm""t. L"ntin:l),undimino.l-.:d.