Renoir finds love
Human connection: Renoir’s Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876), in the UK for the first time.
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Unlike many of his fellow Impressionists, whose talents were nurtured at art school, Renoir learned his trade as a painter of porcelain in a factory.
IT’S SUNDAY AFTERNOON in Paris, and tout le monde is in Montmartre enjoying a dance in the sunshine. Men in bowler hats and boaters, women with their hair tied up in neat buns, populate the scene: and as far as the eye can see there are people, clearly enjoying being together. We are in a painting, and it’s all about embrace. Arms are round shoulders; women and men are dancing; hands are being held; heads and shoulders are close.
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