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"A Girl with a Watering Can" by Pierre Auguste Renoir

Item Number: 1269

Estimated Value: 150 USD
Opening Bid: 50 USD

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"A Girl with a Watering Can" by Pierre Auguste Renoir

Master Artist Museum Print
Size: 11.7" x 16.5"
Status: Unframed

About the Artist

Pierre-Auguste Renoir is a famous French painter whose paintings are probably the most popular, well-known, and frequently reproduced images in the history of art. Renoir was born the son of a tailor on February 25, 1841 in Limoges, France. Early in life he moved to Paris with his family.

At age 14, he became an apprentice as a porcelain painter. He became so adept at this he might have spent the rest of days doing this type of work, but fortunately the firm went bankrupt in 1858. Although he dabbled in several different jobs, but it seemed his earliest job convinced him to attempt to become a full time painter. It seems almost everyone has heard of or at least seen prints of his masterpieces, Bathers, The Umbrellas and Luncheon of the Boating Party. His work has a positive feel full of color and light in the impressionist mode.

Renoir once said, "Why shouldn"t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world."

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Museum Prints

Our "Museum Prints" selection includes works from artists such as Edgar Degas, Odilon Redon, Rembrandt, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Hieronymus Bosch, Henri Rousseau, Peter Paul Reubens, Sandro Botticelli, Egon Schiele, Georges Seurat, William Bouguereau, Vincent Van Gogh, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cezanne, Francis Bacon, Salvador Dali, William Blake, Juan Gris and Philip Guston.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 3 million supporters, members and activists in more than 150 countries and territories who campaign to end grave abuses of human rights. Their vision is for every person to enjoy all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.

Independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion and funded mainly by membership and public donations, Amnesty International has received support from many notable celebrities including Sting, Al Pacino and Eric Clapton.

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