Renoir
Americannoun
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Jean 1894–1979, French film director and writer.
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his father Pierre Auguste 1841–1919, French painter.
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Jean (ʒɑ̃). 1894–1979, French film director: his films include La grande illusion (1937), La règle du jeu (1939), and Diary of a Chambermaid (1945)
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his father, Pierre Auguste (pjɛr oɡyst). 1841–1919, French painter. One of the initiators of impressionism, he broke away from the movement with his later paintings, esp his many nude studies, which are more formal compositions
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“I read an article about Tom Wilson selling his ‘Back to the Future’ first-release sealed copy for $75,000,” Renoir recalls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
Renoir was one of the leading painters in the Impressionist movement, and completed the oil-on-canvas Les Poissons around 1917.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
Renoir stopped making preparatory studies between 1865 and 1875 when, like his Impressionist colleagues Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley and Camille Pissarro, he worked directly from the motif, without preliminaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
Pascal Perrin, an art historian and Renoir expert, lauded the "exceptional condition of the work, which has undergone no restoration" while presenting the canvas.
From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025
He owned a Renoir, a Gulfstream, a helicopter, plus, of course, a yacht.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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