Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Luncheon of the Boating Party

US$ 669.00

Fourteen friends linger over the wreckage of lunch on a restaurant balcony above the Seine — bottles, glasses, a straw hat, a small dog on the table. The striped awning filters the light onto everything below it. It is the most generous picture of ordinary happiness in French painting, and the most technically ambitious thing Renoir ever attempted.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) began as a porcelain painter, which left him with a lifelong preference for warmth, softness and pleasure over anything austere. He assembled this canvas over months on the terrace of the Maison Fournaise at Chatou, bringing his friends out one at a time to pose. The woman with the dog at the lower left is Aline Charigot, whom he later married.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 50 × 37 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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