Celebrates one of the giants of French Impressionism with
luxurious, large-format images
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was one of the founders of
Impressionism and a friend of Monet, Pissarro and Sisley. He
worked side-by-side with Monet on the banks of the Seine, sharing
Monet's concern with light and colour, but landscape painting
never displaced his enduring love of figure painting. Delighting
in the ample curves of the nudes he painted increasingly
frequently in his later years, Renoir was also a master at
capturing the spirit of Parisian life.
His art is filled with optimism-his lifelong philosophy was that
he painted because it gave him pleasure, and he shares that
pleasure with those who see his work.