07 maart 2019

Pierre-Auguste Renoir #10


Pierre-Auguste Renoir's house and studio's, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France (Musée Renoir).

"In 1907 the Impressionist painter, Pierre Auguste Renoir, bought Les Collettes, a pretty pale stone farmhouse set in a garden of olive trees looking out over the sparkling blue of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Renoir discovered the region in 1882 when he visited Paul Cézanne in Aix-en-Provence on a journey to Italy. He was already famous, known particularly for Luncheon of the Boating Party, produced in 1881 and one of the most important works of the past 150 years.
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The two-story house is simple, a series of small rooms with high ceilings and large windows overlooking the bay and the hills to the back. The typical bourgeois villa has red tiles on the floor and plain walls, furniture and mirrors.

The kitchen and the bathroom are functional rather than built to impress.
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The most striking room is Renoir’s grand atelier on the 1st floor. A stone fireplace and chimney dominate one wall; in the middle of the room stands a large easel with his wooden wheelchair in front of it and painting materials to either side.

He had a second petit atelier with views over the bay, the gardens and the mountains in the background, again furnished with a smaller wooden wheelchair. His rheumatoid arthritis was in an advanced stage, but he continued to paint until the day he died, on December 3 rd, 1919.
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(bron: julia's journeys, wikimedia, Riviera Buzz en Hiking and Cooking in the South of France)

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