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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French Impressionist, 1841 - 1919
Une Mere et Deux Enfants
circa 1912
Original lithograph, size: 17.38 x 13.5 in. / 44.1 x 34.3 cm.
Edition size: 50
Unsigned, none were signed
(Better image forthcoming)
Reference: Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
This work is fully documented and referenced in the following catalogue raisonnés and texts.
1.Delteil, Loys, L'Oeuvre Gravé et Lithographié, 1999, listed as no. 54.
2. Stella, Joseph G., The Graphic Work of Renoir, 1962, listed as plate 54.
Dealer comment: One Hundred and four years ago 50 of these prints were produced, milled, on very fine french paper. Paper watermarks are clearly seen when held to the light, Ingres d'Arches and M B M (FRANCE); the confirmation of authenticity. Edges of this paper is naturally rough with a few slight indenting/tears of less than 2 millimeters. The paper tan due light/aging with matt acid mark (under matt not visible framed). It has not been cleaned, or restored and has been reframed using archival matting, under plexiglass.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French Impressionist, 1841 - 1919
Une Mere et Deux Enfants
circa 1912
Original lithograph, size: 17.38 x 13.5 in. / 44.1 x 34.3 cm.
Edition size: 50
Unsigned, none were signed
(Better image forthcoming)
Reference: Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
This work is fully documented and referenced in the following catalogue raisonnés and texts.
1.Delteil, Loys, L'Oeuvre Gravé et Lithographié, 1999, listed as no. 54.
2. Stella, Joseph G., The Graphic Work of Renoir, 1962, listed as plate 54.
Dealer comment: One Hundred and four years ago 50 of these prints were produced, milled, on very fine french paper. Paper watermarks are clearly seen when held to the light, Ingres d'Arches and M B M (FRANCE); the confirmation of authenticity. Edges of this paper is naturally rough with a few slight indenting/tears of less than 2 millimeters. The paper tan due light/aging with matt acid mark (under matt not visible framed). It has not been cleaned, or restored and has been reframed using archival matting, under plexiglass.
Paper Detail: (held up to natural light)
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Historical Description
Depicting a touching moment between a mother and her children, Renoir (Limoges, 1841- Cagnes-sur-Mer, 1919) creates a scene filled with a sense of love and dedication. The mother holds her youngest child and gazes down at him in adoration.
The child appears safe and content in his mother's arms, as if shielded from the cruelties of the outside world. The oldest child gazes on from the left, looking up at his mother with a sense of affection, as if turning to her for comfort and guidance.
Renoir utilizes soft swirling strokes and subtle tonal gradations to depict this mother with her two children. The three figures remain distinct from the background, yet their outlines appear to seamlessly merge with the strokes of the background, creating an overall cohesive work.
Artist Bio
1841-1919 French 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 formaly 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.
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