The umbrellas renoir pierre auguste biography
The umbrellas renoir pierre auguste biography
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The Umbrellas (Renoir)
19th-century painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The Umbrellas is an oil-on-canvas painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted in two phases in the s.
It is owned by the National Gallery in London as part of the Lane Bequest but is displayed alternately in London and at the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. From May to , it returned to Dublin for a six-year period.[1] It is now in the National Gallery London.
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Development
Renoir began the painting in about –81, using the loose brushwork with dark and bright tones typical of the Impressionist movement. In about , after losing his attachment to Impressionism and drawing inspiration from classical art he had seen in Italy and the works of Ingres and Cézanne, he reworked parts of the painting, particularly the principal female figure to the left of the frame, in a more classical linear style using more muted colours, and added the background and the umbrellas themselves.
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