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拍品专文
This work will be included in the forthcoming Pierre-Auguste Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
Following the inspiration of the earlier Barbizon School, whose artists, including Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and François Millet, first painted en plein air in the 1830s, Renoir and other Impressionists began painting the landscapes which would eventually give the group its name. Artists like Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, and Claude Monet experimented with the portrayal of light and atmosphere in their paintings as they took in the scenes around them, recording their experience in broken brushstrokes and a broad range of colors.
The present landscape was executed circa 1895, on a trip to the countryside with his family. It was an auspicious period for the artist: having had a solo show at Durand-Ruel in 1891, he had finally achieved world renown, so much so that the gallery gave him another show including 110 paintings spanning twenty years of his career.
In Le Sentier, the long, swirling brush strokes of the sky signal the imminent Northern weather, while the tighter strokes and playful color throughout the fields exhibit attention to detail and light. As Robert Smith has stated: "Monet may have had a genius for painting light, but Renoir also painted light, as well as humidity hanging in the air, wind flattening grass, briskly moving water and leaves whose textures change with both distance and variety" (The New York Times, 5 October 2007).
Following the inspiration of the earlier Barbizon School, whose artists, including Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and François Millet, first painted en plein air in the 1830s, Renoir and other Impressionists began painting the landscapes which would eventually give the group its name. Artists like Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, and Claude Monet experimented with the portrayal of light and atmosphere in their paintings as they took in the scenes around them, recording their experience in broken brushstrokes and a broad range of colors.
The present landscape was executed circa 1895, on a trip to the countryside with his family. It was an auspicious period for the artist: having had a solo show at Durand-Ruel in 1891, he had finally achieved world renown, so much so that the gallery gave him another show including 110 paintings spanning twenty years of his career.
In Le Sentier, the long, swirling brush strokes of the sky signal the imminent Northern weather, while the tighter strokes and playful color throughout the fields exhibit attention to detail and light. As Robert Smith has stated: "Monet may have had a genius for painting light, but Renoir also painted light, as well as humidity hanging in the air, wind flattening grass, briskly moving water and leaves whose textures change with both distance and variety" (The New York Times, 5 October 2007).