Auguste Renoir - Landscape near Manton 1883

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From Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
In December 1883 Monet and Renoir traveled along the Mediterranean coast from Marseille to Genoa. The trip was Renoir’s first to the region where he would settle at the end of his life. Smitten by its beauty, he wrote to his patron Paul Berard, “…alas our poor palette can’t match up to it.” Nevertheless, with brilliant color and feathery brushstrokes, this picture sets out to capture the place, inviting the viewer into a windswept grove on bluffs overlooking the sea.

In 1886,Van Gogh writes to a friend: ‘I have made a series of colour studies
in painting simply flowers (…) seeking oppositions of blue with orange, red
and green, yellow and violet, seeking the broken and neutral tones to
harmonise brutal extremes. Trying to render intense colour and not a grey
harmony’. - art-vanGogh.com

In his book Noa Noa Gauguin describes his experience of Tahiti and its inhabitants
on his arrival in 1891. He describes the woman in the portrait thus: 'She was not
pretty – at least not by European standards – but beautiful.' Disillusioned with
Europe and the Western art scene Gauguin took his leave and went in search
of a new beginning in the Pacific Islands. - art-Gauguin.com

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Auguste Renoir 1841-1919