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| Work
School of Renoir (Study)
| Date: | 1989
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| Medium: | Oil on paper |
| Size inches: | 18 x 24 1/2 |
| Size cm: | 45.7 x 62.2
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| Signature: | Signed and dated lower center |
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| Location: | Private Collection, Evansville, Indiana |
| Image Notes
Titled lower left
| Artist's Notes
(My Study for a School of Renoir) is in oil on paper sealed with a shellac so that the oil does not penetrate the paper. I usually make drawings and studies when investigating the idea for a painting. The purpose is not only to work out the composition but to test color relationships and to practice the technique of the artist whose work I am investigating. I did not develop my investigation of Renoir beyond the study on paper ... (making it) the only School of Renoir that I have made.
An objective in all my "school of ..." works is to make the subject readily recognizable, in this case recognizably Renoir. Therefore I have quoted well-known paintings by Renoir:
in the left background, Mme. Charpentier and Her Children, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;
in the right background, The Bathers, Philadelphia Museum of Art;
up front, the man and woman from Luncheon of the Boating Party, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
The man in the background sitting at the easel painting is Renoir, from a photograph taken in 1914. The blackboard, desks and schoolroom setting are mine.
(George Deem, letter to Mr. and Mrs. G. Richard Eykamp, December 2, 1995)
| Exhibitions
Eckert Fine Art Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana
The Branson School, Ross, California
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