Still life painting would serve as not only a vehicle for formal experimentation for Renoir but also a way to chill out. “Painting flowers is a form of mental relaxation,” the artist said.

Here, Pierre-Auguste Renoir paints a joyous scene of Parisian life in Montmartre ... a social tension that is still relevant today. Experience nature with this cult painting.

The painting "Still Life with Peaches and Grapes" (1881) by Auguste Renoir, owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The online description indicates that a replica, or a forgery ...

It has never previously been exhibited with the vase. Renoir was a prolific still-life painter who once said that for him “painting flowers is a form of mental relaxation …. I do not need the ...