The dancer by auguste renoir
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Renoir, Impressionism, favour Full-Length Painting
February 7 purpose May 13, 2012
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) |
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Pierre Auguste Renoir Hand Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper :"The Dancer, 1874"
Title: The Dancer, 1874
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 20 x 28 in | Image Size: 16 x 24 in
Edition | Medium: Each print is hand numbered, accompanied by a certificate signed by the Master Printer and is numbered to match the print. The editions are limited to 1880 copies. |
This Gouttelette print on paper is published with light-fast inks to BS1006 Standard onto acid-free calcium carbonate buffered stock, mould-made from 100% cotton and sourced from environmentally conscious paper suppliers. This product is exclusive to Rosenstiels.
About the Art: Superior Edition
About the Artist:
Along with his great friend Monet, with whom he shared early poverty and a common professional destiny, Renoir has come to represent the quintessential Impressionist.
Renoir was born in Limoges in 1841 and his family moved to Paris shortly afterwards. At the age of 13 he became an apprentice to a china manufacturer, then later to a producer of fans. The delicate touch he acquired as a painter of plates and fans was to remain an essential element of his work.
Renoir's formal art training began in 1862, when he enrolled at �cole des Beaux Arts. Here his tutor was Gl
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Auguste Renoir - Dancer 1874
From National Gallery of Art, Washingon:
The Dancer was one of seven works that Renoir included in the first exhibition of the Société anonyme coopérative des artistes, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, etc., which opened in April 1874. In contrast to works by most of the other artists in the group—soon to be dubbed the impressionists—Renoir's paintings were relatively well received. The Dancer in particular was singled out for attention. While some dismissed it as being little more than a sketch and lacking in good draftsmanship (the same criticisms leveled at many of the works on display), others found it graceful and charming, praising its realism and originality of conception. As one writer remarked, "The Danseuse is true to life and has a fine and nervous elegance in its truth." Another admired the dancer's head, which he described as "fresh, alive, with a very simple modeling and a very accurate bearing."
The Dancer inevitably calls to mind the work of Renoir's fellow impressionist Edgar Degas, whose name is now synonymous with depictions of ballet dancers. In contrast to Degas, whose interest lay in depicting dancers in repose, captured in unguarded and unselfconscious moments, Renoir chose to paint a more formal portrait. Both the painti