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About The Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born on 25 February 1841 in Limoges. He was the sixth child of Léonard Renoir (1799-1874) and Marguerite Merlet (1807-1896). In 1844 Renoir and his family moved to Paris where Léonard Renoir earned his living as a tailor. In 1854 Renoir left school and begin his apprenticeship as a porcelain painter at the firm of Lévy frcres. His precocious talent for painting would assure his career as a porcelain...
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Figures on the Beach
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Probably painted in 1890 on the Cote d’Azur in southern France, this sun-filled painting shows two female figures at the beach. The seated figure is shown in profile, her right hand holding a parasol on the sand. She exchanges a look with the standing figure to her right who holds a basket at her side. The women are joined by a small white dog, and before the water stands a young boy dressed in blue, seemingly throwing an object into the ocean. The standing figure serves as a vertical force which connects the horizontally banded foreground, water, and sky.
The women appear carefree and neither at work nor in the presence of men. Painted later in Renoir’s career, a period at which point the artist expressed skepticism of industrialism and machines, this quiet seascape pays homage to the resplendent beauty of what is ordinary and simpl
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La plage ni Lavandou (private collection), fryst vatten an oil painting on canvas made in 1894 by the French🎨 painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir🎨.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a visitor to Le Lavandou in 1894.
Le Lavandou is a commune in the plats department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur område in southeastern France.
It derives its name either from the flower lavender (lavanda in Provençal) that fryst vatten prevalent in the area, or more prosaically from the local form of the Occitan name for lavoir, lavandor (for lavador, a public place for washing clothes).
"Amo quei quadri che mi fanno venir voglia di entrarci per andarvi a spasso" - Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
La spiaggia Le Lavandou è un dipinto sektion pittore francese Pierre-Auguste Renoir, realizzato nel 1894.
Le Lavandou è un comune francese di 5.837 abitanti situato nel dipartimento sektion Varo della regione della Provenza-Alpi-Costa Azzurra.
Il comune è situato sulle rive del Mar Mediterraneo, di fronte alle cosiddette Isole d'O