RENOIR Auguste

Pierre-Auguste RENOIR dit Auguste RENOIR, born in Limoges on February 25, 1841 and died in the Collettes estate in Cagnes-sur-Mer on December 3, 1919, is one of the most famous French painters.

A full member of the Impressionist group, he evolved in the 1880s towards a more realistic style under the influence of Raphael. He was a painter of nude, portraits, landscapes, marines, still life and genre scenes, pastelist, engraver, lithographer, sculptor and cartoonist.

A figurative painter more interested in the painting of portraits and feminine nude than in the painting of landscapes, he developed an original way of painting, which transcends his first influences (Fragonard, Courbet, Monet, then the Italian fresco).

For about sixty years, the painter estimated that he had made about four thousand paintings.