Pierre-Auguste Renoir died #onthisday in 1919. He began his career as a painter of porcelain in Limoges before studying with Sisley and Monet at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was, with Monet, at the forefront of the movement that became known as Impressionism. The two artists painted side by side on occasion, most famously for their paintings of the popular bathing-spot La Grenouillere on the banks of the Seine. Renoir's paintings were always light-hearted, with soft-feathered brushstrokes capturing fleeting movement and mottled light. His later works concentrate on the female nude and he tended to emphasise simple forms and solidity, as well as relishing pink and orange flesh, as this study illustrates. Despite suffering from rheumatism in his last years, Renoir continued to work, saying: 'If painting were not a pleasure to me I should certainly not do it.'http://ow.ly/V4VVM
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