Description
“Baigneuse Dubout, A Mi-Jambes” a posthumous etching on cream laid paper. Printed in 1910.
Annotation
“Baigneuse Dubout, A Mi-Jambes”, by Pierre Auguste Renoir is an etching on cream laid paper, pale light stain, affixed with tape along the left side edge verso to top mat, some minor soiling verso, a handling crease in the bottom margin, otherwise in good condition with full margins, sheet size: 13 ¼ x 10 inches.
About Pierre Auguste Renoir
Pierre Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges France, in 1841. He studied painting formally from 1862 to 1863 at the academy of the Swiss painter Charles Grabiel Gleyre in Paris. His early work was influenced primarily by Claude Monet’s treatment of light by Eugene Delacroix’s treatment of color.
Renoir fully established his reputation with a solo exhibition held at the Durand-Ruel Gallery in Paris, 1883, and in 1887 he completed a series of studies of a group of nude female figures known as The Bathers. Many of his later paintings maintained the same theme in an increasingly bold rhythmic style.
During the last 20 years of his life, Renoir was crippled by arthritis. Despite his inability to move his hand freely, he continued to paint by using a brush strapped to his art. Renoir passed away in the south of France in 1919.
Museums:
- British Museum, London,
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY,
- Louvre Museum, Paris
