Tuesday 30 June 2015

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - part 11

Pierre Auguste Renoir by Jean Louis Forain 
lithograph 
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

An innovative artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born on February 25, 1841, in Limoges, France. He started out as an apprentice to a porcelain painter and studied drawing in his free time. After years as a struggling painter, Renoir helped launch an artistic movement called Impressionism in the 1870s. He eventually became one of the most highly regarded artists of his time. He died in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, in 1919.


For earlier works see part 1 - 10 also. This is part 11 of a 30-part series on the works of Renoir:


1887-88 Child with Brown Hair 
oil on canvas 11.7 x 10.1 cm
 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1887c Head of a Woman
 oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1887c Head of a Young Woman 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1888 Bougival
 oil on canvas
 Private Collection

1888 Edmond Renoir 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1888c Edmond Renoir 
pastel on buff paper 
Private Collection

1888 Head of a Young Woman 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1888 Little Girl with a Spray of Flowers
 oil on canvas 
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil

1888 Nude 
oil on canvas 55.9 x 46.4 cm 
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

1888 The Coiffure
 oil on canvas
 Private Collection

1888 The Daughters of Catulle Mendès, Huguette Claudine and Helyonne 
oil on canvas 161.9 x 129.9 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1888 The Port of Martigues 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1888 The Seine at Argenteuil 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1888 Young Girl with a Basket of Flowers 
oil on canvas 61 x 47 cm 
Private Collection

1888 Young Girl with a Dog 
oil on canvas 54.5 x 46 cm
 Private Collection

1888 Young Woman Bathing 
oil on canvas 81.2 x 65.4 cm
 Private Collection

1888-89c Montagne Sainte-Victoire 
oil on canvas 
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

1888-90 Grove of Trees 
opaque and transparent watercolour on cream wove paper 24.6 x 17.9 cm 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1888-90 Outskirts of Pont-Aven 
oil on canvas 54.5 x 65 cm 
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London

1888-92 In the MeadowBetween 1888 and 1892 Renoir painted a number of works in which the same pair of girls - the blonde wearing a white dress and the brunette in a pink dress - engage in leisurely pastimes. Here, they pick flowers; the same models appear at the piano in a series of works. These intimate genre scenes celebrating youthful innocence found a ready market at the time:


1888-92 In the Meadow 
oil on canvas 81.3 x 65.4 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1890-92 Portrait of Two Girls 
oil on canvas 
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris

1890 Girls at the Piano 
oil on canvas 118 x 86.4 cm

1892 Girls at the Piano 
oil on canvas 116 x 81 cm 
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris

1892 Young Girls at the Piano 
oil on canvas 116 x 90 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Girls at the Piano 
oil on canvas

1892c Young Girls at the Piano
 oil on canvas 116.5 x 89.5 cm
 State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

1888c A Horse 
watercolour and pen and ink on paper 14.5 x 24.1 cm
 Private Collection

1888c Bordighera 
oil on canvas 28.3 x 43.5 cm 
Private Collection

1888c Catulle Mendez 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1888c Washerwomen 
oil on canvas 56.5 x 47.5 cm 
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland

1888 Reading 
oil on canvas 65.1 x 54 cm
 Private Collection

1888 Young Girl Reading 
oil on canvas 28.5 x 21 cm 
Private Collection

1888c Young Girl Reading 
oil on canvas 30.8 x 29.5 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1889 A Young Girl with Daisies 
oil on canvas 65.1 x 54 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1889 Flowers and Fruit 
oil on canvas 65.5 x 54 cm 
Private Collection

1889 House and Figure among the Trees
 oil on canvas 32 x 41 cm 
Private Collection

1889 Landscape 
watercolour on off-white laid paper 22.6 x 31.9 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1889 Madame de Bonnières 
oil on canvas 117 x 89 cm 
Musée du Petit Palais, Paris

1889 Montagne Sainte-Victoire 
oil on canvas 54.4 x 65.5 cm 
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

1889 Seated Child in a Blue Dress
 oil on canvas 64.8 x 54 cm 
Private Collection

1889 Seated Woman with Green Sash 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1889 Standing Nude 
oil on canvas 41.6 x 31.4 cm
 Private Collection

1889 The Bathrobe 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1889 Sweeper 
oil on canvas 65.5 x 47 cm 
Private Collection

1889 Two Sisters 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1889c Reading 
pastel on paper 81 x 65 cm 
Private Collection

1889c Young Girls at the Piano 
oil on canvas 55.9 x 46.4 cm
 Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

1889 Woman Wearing a Hat 
oil on canvas
 Private Collection

1889-90 Portrait of Pierre
 pastel on paper 
Private Collection

1889-95c Pines
 watercolour on paper 11.9 x 20.3 cm 
Private Collection

1889-95c Through the Fields
 watercolour and gouache on paper 21.2 x 29.5 cm 
Private Collection

1889c Bather 
oil on canvas
 Private Collection

1889c Girl with a Basket of Fish 
oil on canvas 130.7 x 41.8 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1889c Girl with a Basket of Oranges 
oil on canvas 128.8 x 41.8 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1889c Lakeside Landscape
 oil on canvas
 The National Gallery, London

1889c Still Life with Apples and a Pear 
oil on canvas 22 x 31 cm 
Private Collection

1889c View Close to Antibes 
oil on canvas 55.2 x 66.4 cm 
Private Collection

1890  Madame Renoir and her Son Pierre 
oil on canvas 19 x 16 cm
 Private Collection

1890 Basket of Flowers 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1890 Figures on a Beach 
oil on canvas 52.7 x 64.1 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York