Auguste Pierre RENOIR (1841-1919), Paysage - Riviere, 1910

oil, canvas pasted on board; 11.3 x 10.2 cm;
Signed p. d.: R (facsimile)
On the reverse, number: 2655 (in red ink) and 2 (in pencil).
Provenance: Galerie Barhazanges, Paris (1922-1927); Louis Bernard Collection. Paris; Private collection, France; Private collection, Warsaw.
Literature: Messrs. Bernheim-Jeune, Marc Edler. Albert Andre, "Renoir's Atelier - L'atelier de Renoir" (Revised edition / San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989), no. 384, ill. p. 123 - here as "Paysages riviere," dated 1910.

Despite his illness - nagging rheumatoid arthritis - he never stopped painting. Landscapes were a frequent subject of the paintings created at the time. The artist remained faithful to his favorite colors from the heyday of Impressionism - hues of pink, sunny green, olive tones, intense blues. Brush strokes become longer, narrow, painted vigorously, still treated painterly rendering more the impression of landscape, light, multicolored nature than the reproduction of the view. In the presented work - which is an event on the Polish art market - tendencies inherent in the work of colorists creating in the first quarter of the twentieth century are visible. Although they grow out of Renoir's impressionist experience they are already closer to modern art. As in the paintings of Claude Monet, the evolution of artistic experience is also evident in Renoir's paintings.