Biography of Auguste Renoir and His Principal Works: Legacy, Glory, and the Final Gallery

The last 30 years of Renoir's life were filled with glory and arthritis.

Even confined to a wheelchair, with increasingly severe joint deformities, he tried to adapt by asking someone to tie his fingers to the brush.

Auguste Renoir passed away on Cagnes-sur-Mer, on December 3, 1919, at the age of 78.

One of his most famous works, The Bathers, was completed two days before his death.

Just before he died, the French government bought one of his works and exhibited it at the Louvre, where the painter spent many afternoons copying masterpieces.

Although not faithful to Impressionism like Monet, Renoir will always be remembered as one of the main painters and founders of this important movement that paved the way for modern art in the 20th century.

GALLERY AND READING OF SOME WORKS

THE CLOWN - The world of the circus fascinated French plastic artists in the second half of the 19th century, who opposed the representation of traditional themes in academic painting.

VELEIROS EM ARGENTEUIL - Like La Grenouillère, also this painting was done by Renoir in the company of Monet.

ROSA E AZUL - Alice and Elizabeth Cahen d'Anvers were daughters of a banker.

YOUNG GIRLS AT THE PIANO - In the last decade of the 19th century, Renoir often painted entire series of works that represented one or two figures.