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Ren·oir

(rən-wär′), Jean 1894-1979.

French filmmaker who won acclaim for the artistry of films such as Grand Illusion (1937) and Rules of the Game (1939).

Renoir

, Pierre Auguste 1841-1919.

French impressionist painter whose warm, luminous works include Child with Watering Can (1876) and Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881).

Renoir

(ˈrɛnwɑː; French rənwar)

1. (Biography) Jean (ʒɑ̃). 1894–1979, French film director: his films include La grande illusion (1937), La règle du jeu (1939), and Diary of a Chambermaid (1945)

2. (Biography) his father, Pierre Auguste (pjɛr oɡyst). 1841–1919, French painter. One of the initiators of impressionism, he broke away from the movement with his later paintings, esp his many nude studies, which are more formal compositions

Re•noir

(ˈrɛn wɑr, rɛnˈwɑr)

n.

1. Jean (zhä n), 1894–1979, French film director.

2. his father, Pierre Auguste, 1841–1919, French painter.

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Renoir - French impressionist painter (1841-1919)

Pierre Auguste Renoir

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They talked of the places they had been to in the summer, of studios, of the various schools; they mentioned names which were unfamiliar to Philip, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, Degas.

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Renoir lived to be 78 years old, and he went on painting nearly every day that he was not confined to bed.

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Renoir had moved to southern France in the hopes that the climate would alleviate his suffering from rheumatism.

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It is called St Tropez and while the precise date of its creation is not known, it's thought it was probably painted in about 1899 when Renoir settled in the south of France, near Cannes.

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There also is further paradox in that Renoir and Truffaut both were well aware of the obsessiveness that often drives art.

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The Renoir painting, which was completed by the French Impressionist in 1909, was the highlight.

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Decidido a no dejarse aplastar por el peso de su material, un genio de la pintura mas otro del cine, padre e hijo contrapuestos en un esbozo de triangulo amoroso, Edipo vaporoso como la pintura del maestro, Gilies Bourdos dirige Renoir (Francia, 2013) con una mezcla de aplomo y reverencia.

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The small Renoir piece became the subject of a dramatic legal dispute after a Virginia woman, Marcia ''Martha'' Fuqua, said she bought the painting at a flea market for $7.