Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881 - Two Sisters (On the Terrace) - fine art print

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This painting was painted by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1881. The artwork measures the size: 100,4 × 80,9 cm (39 1/2 × 31 7/8 in). Oil on canvas was applied by the painter as the medium of the artpiece. The original artwork's inscription is the following: inscribed at lower right: Renoir '81. Today, this artwork can be viewed in in the Art Institute Chicago's collection, which is one of the world’s great art museums, housing a collection that spans centuries and the globe. We are glad to reference that this artpiece, which belongs to the public domain is included with courtesy of Art Institute Chicago. In addition to that, the artwork has the creditline: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection. Further, the alignment is in portrait format and has a side ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width. The illustrator, painter, sculptor Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a European artist, whose style can primarily be classified as Impressionism. The French painter was born in the year 1841 in Limoges, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France and deceased at the age of 78 in 1919.

What does the website of the Art Institute Chicago write about this 19th century artwork created by Pierre-Auguste Renoir? (© - Art Institute Chicago - www.artic.edu)

“He loves everything that is joyous, brilliant, and consoling in life,” an anonymous interviewer once wrote about Pierre-Auguste Renoir. This may explain why Two Sisters (On the Terrace) is one of the most popular paintings in the Art Institute. Here Renoir depicted the radiance of lovely young women on a warm and beautiful day. The older girl, wearing the female boater’s blue flannel, is posed in the center of the evocative landscape backdrop of Chatou, a suburban town where the artist spent much of the spring of 1881. She gazes absently beyond her younger companion, who seems, in a charming visual conceit, to have just dashed into the picture. Technically, the painting is a tour de force: Renoir juxtaposed solid, almost life-size figures against a landscape that—like a stage set—seems a realm of pure vision and fantasy. The sewing basket in the left foreground evokes a palette, holding the bright, pure pigments that the artist mixed, diluted, and altered to create the rest of the painting. Although the girls were not actually sisters, Renoir’s dealer showed the work with this title, along with Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando and others, at the seventh Impressionist exhibition, in 1882.

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