ORIGINAL PASTEL DRAWING SIGNED RENOIR "PROVENCE
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Offered for sale is an Original Pastel drawingDescription : Beautiful impressionism portrait painting Artist : Pierre-Auguste Renoir Subject : Impressionism Signed : Renoir Measurements : Framed 27" by 23" inches & 14X10 inches sight Frame: Beautiful Dark Wood Framing Condition : Great Estate Condition. FREE SHIPPING IN THE USA ONLY!!! Any dark spots are only shadows from taking the pictures, Thank you. This would make a fine addition to ones collection or a wonderful gift. 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. The Theater Box, 1874 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Courtauld Institute Galleries, LondonIn 1862, he began studying art under Charles Gleyre in Paris. There he met Alfred Sisley, Frdric Bazille, and Claude Monet. At times during the 1860s, he did not have enough money to buy paint. Although Renoir first started exhibiting paintings at the Paris Salon in 1864, recognition did not come for another ten years, due, in part, to the turmoil of the Franco-Prussian
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