Pierre-Auguste Renoir's style of the 1870s had…
October 1880 CE
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's style of the 1870s had been formless from a traditional standpoint, and at the beginning of the 1880s Renoir decides that he has gone to the limit with Impressionism and ”did not know either how to paint or draw.”
He does not participate in the Impressionist group show, but exhibits Mussel-Fishers at Berneval, Young Girl Asleep and two pastels at the Salon.
He begins work on Luncheon of the Boating Party, for which a young milliner, Aline Charigor, poses.
Following a trip to Italy, he sets about acquiring a wiry, linear style that is the direct opposite of his relaxed, freely brushed manner of earlier years.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880–1881, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
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