Paisagem do Midi, França (Paysage du Midi) - Pierre Auguste Renoir
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OST - 27x50 - Circa 1915
Renoir adored the South of France and regularly spent time
there before moving permanently to the area in 1897. He found the warmth and
sunlight of the southern climate beneficial to his health and produced numerous
paintings of the region from the mid-1890s onward. The artist cemented his
close connection to the South of France with the purchase of a countryside
property near Cagnes in 1907, Les Colettes. Renoir remarked on the region: “In
this marvelous country, it seems as if misfortune cannot befall one; one is
cosseted by the atmosphere” (Renoir (exhibition catalogue), Hayward
Gallery, London, 1985-86, p. 286).
Renoir and Monet had spent time together on the outskirts of
Paris painting the same vistas en plein air in the late nineteenth
century. With Monet in Giverny by 1915 and Renoir settled at Les Collettes,
they could no longer paint together but continued to display the same degree of
vitality and experimentation in their mature works.
Paysage du Midi is an exercise in balance and color
theory, and it was these same principles which subsequent generations of
artists would continue to develop and expand. The work’s pastel strokes of pink
and blue are tempered with balanced blacks and greens, achieving a shockingly
dynamic representation. It is this vitality that Vincent van Gogh had so
admired in Renoir’s work. In a letter to his brother Théo in 1885, he wrote
that Renoir reminded him “there is life in every pencil stroke,” casting a
different light on the artistic dialogue between the two painters (quoted in
Keith Wheldon, Renoir and His Art, New York, 1975, p. 120).
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