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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Vase of Flowers (Vase de fleurs )

c. 1889
Oil on canvas
41.3 × 33 cm (16.3 × 13 in)

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Luscious swirls of blushing pink and peach brushstrokes capture the fullness of the blooms in this informal still-life painting. This commercially appealing genre provided Renoir with a steady source of income. Indeed, the majority of the still lifes he produced between the 1860s and 1880s were intended for the art market, where they found buyers more readily than did his landscapes and figure paintings. Beyond financial profit, Renoir approached still lifes as technical exercises to improve speed of handling, explore color combinations, and "research into flesh tones for a nude."

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