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Rare Impressionist Painting

Portrait of a girl

About

Here presented is a remarkable Impressionist pastels and gouache, depicting a charming portrait of a girl. For more than 50 years Renoir explored the genre of portraiture, experimenting and pressing forward in his determination to become - as he explained to Monet in 1884 „a painter of figures. “It was known that Renoir had a long-standing admiration for children's hair--long tresses were quite common for young boys around this time, and Renoir purposefully painted his children before they had their first haircuts in an attempt to capture their fullest and purest states of innocence within his portraits.

The measurements of the painting are: 28.7 x 19.6 cm. The artwork is signed Renoir, in the lower left of the artwork. The artwork is also marked and stamped on verso. With this artwork we will provide a letter of transfer of ownership to the new owner, a COA which came with the artwork, a registration certificate with National Fine Arts Title Registry and a transfer of registry certificate to the new owner. The artwork is offered and documented as-is, as in manner of the artist. This work is was acquired in the Austrian antique market few years back. The condition of the artwork is as pictured, in our opinion the artwork is in good condition for its age, we notice aging of the paper.

About Pierre-Auguste Renoir:

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French Impressionist painter whose eye for beauty made him one of the movement's most popular practitioners. He is best known for his paintings of bustling Parisian modernity and leisure. His work is characterized by an extraordinary richness of feeling, a warmth of response to the world and to the people in it.Though celebrated as a colorist with a keen eye for capturing the movement of light and shadow, Renoir started to explore Renaissance painting in the middle of his career, which led him to integrate more line and composition into his mature works and create some of his era's most timeless artworks.

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