Auguste RENOIR: LE CLOWN
« élan dionysiaque, elle n'accable point l'homme, elle est sa compagne bienveillante.
L'image que Renoir se fait del'espace nous offre cette atmosphère de paradis païen.
Ce que le regard embrasse suffit à l'artiste.
Il n'a rien d'unanalyste, ce magicien généreux et immobile.
De son seul regard, il "charme" les apparences.
Elles se posent sur satoile et s'y prennent à un réseau de poésie.
Il observe avec la vigilance exclusive et infaillible des peintres descavernes à qui leur pas réglé sur celui du gibier avait enseigné à en discerner les plus fugitives attitudes.
Après avoirusé de toutes les ressources de l'impressionnisme par quoi l'espace emprunte la fluidité du temps, Renoir éprouvaque cette vaine poursuite tend à subordonner l'artiste.
Pour Renoir, civilisé occidental, jamais ne s'efface lasuprématie de l'homme, qui seul est capable à la fois de sentir et d'organiser la nature.
Pour exprimer la profondeur,il inventera un milieu idéal où flotteront les objets, selon que la vivacité de leurs tons les éloigne ou les rapproche denous.
En situant les choses par la fermeté de leurs accents, il trouvera, pour des motifs analo
Le clown musical ()
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste ()
Le clown musical (The Clown)
Oil on canvas, x cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Commission
Auguste Renoir made this large painting on commission for the owner of the café of Cirque d’Hiver, the winter circus in Paris. The clown in the middle of the ring is the then famous John Price, who performed together with his brother William as ‘clown-musiciens’. He entertained the Parisian public by, among other things, playing the violin while standing on a shaky chair.
Fixed pose
The clown’s dark costume with large embroidered butterflies and red sleeves and stockings creates a sharp contrast with the yellow sand of the ring and the white of the low, curved wall and the chair. His fixed pose creates an atmosphere of tension. Having stopped playing, he stares straight ahead as if hypnotized.
Novice years
The clown dates from Renoir’s novice years, when he made large, detailed portraits that often cover the entire canvas. He only developed his well-known impressionist style in Then he created the paintings for which he became world-renowned: the images of Paris and its surroundings, the crowded parks and cafes, the portrai
Claude Renoir en clown
Artist(s)
Renoir Auguste
auteur
Limoges, Haute-Vienne (87) (France) - Cagnes-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes (06) (France)
Others accession number
Accession number
Description
huile sur toile
Dimensions
H. ; L. 77 cm avec cadre H. ; L. cm
Others accession number
Accession number
Inscription(s)
en gris : Renoir.
Place of conservation
musée de l&#;Orangerie
entre et , dépôt de l&#;artiste à la galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (01/09/ - 27/07/)
à partir de , dans la collection Claude Renoir
collecion Ambroise Vollard, Paris
collection Paul Guillaume, Paris
jusqu&#;en , dans la collection de Mme Jean Walter, Paris
, acquis de Mme Jean Walter avec le concours de la Société des Amis du Louvre (arrêté d&#;approbation de la vente du 21/02/)
, musée de l&#;Orangerie, Paris, entrée matérielle
Modality of acquisition
achat
Renoir - galerie Flechtheim - Allemagne, Berlin,
Opening Exhibition - Marie Harriman Gallery -
Renoir portraitiste - galerie Bernheim-Jeune -
Collection Jean Walter-Paul Guillaume - musée de l&#;Orangerie - France, Paris,
Renoir - Ha
Pierre Auguste Renoir, a French impressionist painter, was noted for his radiant, intimate paintings, particularly of the female nude. Recognized by critics as one of the greatest and most independent painters of his period, Renoir is noted for the harmony of his lines, the brilliance of his colour, and the intimate charm of his wide variety of subjects. Unlike other impressionists he was as much interested in painting the single human figure or family group portraits as he was in landscapes; unlike them, too, he did not subordinate composition and plasticity of form to attempts at rendering the effect of light.
At the age of 13 Renoir began painting flowers on dishware at a porcelain factory and later painted fans and screens. In he entered the studio of Charles Gleyre () and became friends with Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley, who shared his inclination to take up painting outdoors. By the time () that he and Monet worked together at La Grenouillere, on the Seine, Renoir had developed a delicate touch and vibrant brushwork that were distinctly his own.
In the early s, Renoir and his friends joined with other avant-garde artists to form a loose-knit artistic circle now known
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