Danse à La Bougival 1983

Year1983

Estate SignedLower Right 

Condition Mint 

Not Framed 

Purchased fromDealer 2020 

Story / Additional InfoThis beautiful and authentic Limited Edition hand-pulled lithograph print of "Danse à la Bougival" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir was created at La Maison Mourlot in Paris, France, under the guidance and direction of Paul Renoir - the sole heir to the artistic legacy of Pierre Auguste Renoir. Produced on 250-gram, 100% acid-free archival Fabriano paper, it has been personally inspected, numbered, signed, and given the cachet d'artelier Renoir by the heir. The edition is limited to 950 hand-pulled lithographs and 50 Artist's Proofs. The plates from which it has been created have been destroyed and no further editions will be produced. 

Certificate of AuthenticityRenoir Impressionists Society 

LID152790

Pierre Auguste Renoir - France

Art Brokerage: Park West Artist: Auguste Renoir. We can also assist with acquiring an original painting. 1841-1919 Frrench Artist, Pierre Auguste Renoir was an impressionist painter noted for his radiant, intimate paintings, particularly of the female nude. Recognized by critics as one of the greatest and most independent painters of his period, Renoir is noted for the harmony of his lines, the brilliance of his color, and the intimate charm of his wide variety of subjects. Unlike other impressionists he was as much interested in painting the single human figure or family group portraits as he was in landscapes; unlike them, too, he did not subordinate composition and plasticity of form to attempts at rendering the effect of light. Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges on February 25, 1841. As a child he worked in a porcelain factory in Paris, painting designs on china; at 17 he copied paintings on fans, lamp shades, and blinds. He studied painting formally in 1862-63 at the academy of the Swiss painter Charles Gabriel Gleyre in Paris. Renoir's early work was influenced by two French artists, Claude Monet in his treatment of light and the romantic painter Eugène Delacroix in his treatment of color. Renoir first exhibited his paintings in Paris in 1864, but he did not gain recognition until 1874, at the first exhibition of painters of the new impressionist school. One of the most famous of all impressionist works is Renoir's Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette (1876, Musée du Louvre, Paris), an open-air scene of a café, in which his mastery in figure painting and in representing light is evident. Outstanding examples of his talents as a portraitist are Madame Charpentier and Her Children (1878, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) and Jeanne Samary. Renoir fully established his reputation with a solo exhibition held at the Durand-Ruel Gallery in Paris in 1883. In 1887 he completed a series of studies of a group of nude female figures known as The Bathers (Philadelphia Museum of Art). These reveal his extraordinary ability to depict the lustrous, pearly color and texture of skin and to impart lyrical feeling and plasticity to a subject; they are unsurpassed in the history of modern painting in their representation of feminine grace. Many of his later paintings also treat the same theme in an increasingly bold rhythmic style. Listings wanted.