Mon Portrait 1919

stamp signed

Two Women with Flowered Hats

Size 10x10.5"

Soft Ground Etching, stamp signed

Pencil numbered bottom right 220/1500

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Renoir Original Heliogravure. Limited edition of 375 on Velin d’ Arches paper. Hand pulled from a copper plate in Paris on Dec. 15 1919. Estimated At: 3,300.00 - 3,850.00 USD EGE-Spring Blowout April 24, 2010	Le chapeau épinglé Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 4in Etching on wove paper Not Sold Estimate: 800 - 1,000 USD Bonhams & Butterfields, Los Angeles Jun 19, 20

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir; (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, the child of a working class family. As a boy, he worked in a porcelain factory where his drawing talents led to him being chosen to paint designs on fine china. He also painted hangings for overseas missionaries and decorations on fans before he enrolled in art school. During those early years, he often visited the Louvre to study the French master painters.

Renoir experienced his initial acclaim when six of his paintings hung in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. In the same year, two of his works were shown with Durand-Ruel in London.

In 1883, he spent the summer in Guernsey, creating fifteen paintings in little over a month. Most of these feature Moulin Huet, a bay in Saint Martin's, Guernsey. Guernsey is one of the Channel Islands in the English Channel, and it has a varied landscape that includes beaches, cliffs, bays, forests, and mountains.

In 1890, he married Aline Victorine Charigot, who had already served as a model for Le Déjeuner des canotiers (Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1881). After his marriage, Renoir painted many scenes of his wife and daily family life, including their children and their nurse, Aline's cousin Gabrielle Renard. The Renoirs had three sons, one of whom, Jean, became a filmmaker of note and another, Pierre, became a stage and film actor.

Around 1892, Renoir developed rheumatoid arthritis. In 1907, he moved to the warmer climate of "Les Collettes," a farm at Cagnes-sur-Mer, close to the Mediterranean coast. Renoir painted during the last twenty years of his life, even when arthritis severely limited his movement, and he was wheelchair-bound. He developed progressive deformities in his hands and ankylosis of his right shoulder, requiring him to adapt his painting technique.