"As for Renoir [with regard to his paintings at the Paris Impressionism-exhibition, of M. Petit, May 1887], again the same hiatus. I do understand what he is trying to do, it is proper not to want to stand still, but he chose to concentrate on the line, his figures are all separate entities, detached from one another without regard for color; the result is something unintelligible. Renoir, without the gift for drawing, and without his former instinctive feeling for beautiful colors, becomes incoherent."
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Camille Pissarro, letter to his son Lucien, Paris, 14 May, 1887; in Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of Lucien Pissarro; from the unpublished French letters; Tr., Lionel Abel; Pantheon Books Inc. New York, second edition, 1943, p. 108.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.
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