Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Two Sisters (On the Terrace)
1881
A verified collection highlight at Art Institute of Chicago: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881. Oil on canvas.
- Beaux-Arts de Paris
- Académie Suisse
Pierre-Auguste Renoir helped define Impressionism through paintings of leisure, sociability and outdoor light. After the 1880s he increasingly returned to drawing, the nude and more solidly modeled forms, developing a late style that influenced younger painters including Matisse and Picasso.
Painting; drawing; sculpture
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Major Works
- 1869La Grenouillère
- 1874La Loge
- 1876Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette
- 1876The Swing
- 1878Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children
- 1880–81Luncheon of the Boating Party
- 1881Two Sisters (On the Terrace) →
- 1883Dance in the Country
- 1884–87The Large Bathers
- 1892Girls at the Piano
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