Description
Renoir painting Woman in a Blue Dress, Standing in the Garden of St. Cloud captures the true essence of Impressionistic style. Renoir’s splendiferous painting is a tribute to the Master’s unique ability to translate life onto canvas.Born to a working class family, Pierre-Auguste Renoir began his artistic apprenticeship painting porcelain at age 13. While he would visit the Louvre to study the French masters during his early years, his formal training began with Swiss artist Charles Gleyre.Unlike many of his fellow Impressionists, the official Salon in Paris occasionally accepted his work for exhibition, beginning in 1864 and continuing through 1870, and once again in 1879. During the period in between, he helped to organize the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874, which was a home for those artists rejected by the Salon. It included the paintings of fellow luminaries such as Degas, Cezanne, Pissarro and Renoir’s friend and frequent collaborator, Monet.Why settle for posters or prints when you can add sophistication to any room with hand-crafted oil on canvas reproductions.
