Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – The Vineyards at Cagnes
| Year of creation: | 1908 |
| Original size: | 46.4 cm x 55.2 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Brooklyn Museum, New York |
The Vineyards at Cagnes is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1908. The original measures 46.4 x 55.2 cm, is catalogued as 51.219 and hangs in the Brooklyn Museum, New York. Our hand-painted painting The Vineyards at Cagnes is worked in oil on canvas, in eight sizes from 70 x 60 to 150 x 130 cm.
Two slender olive trunks rise at the left and right edges and lean inward, their crowns meeting across the top of the canvas in loose green and ochre. Between them the ground drops away in broken strokes of rose, orange and green to a pale band of sea and a low blue horizon. A small ochre building with a red roof sits at the middle right, and below it a figure in red bends among the vines.
This is not the same painting as The Farm at Les Collettes, although the place is the same. Cagnes-sur-Mer was Renoir’s home in his last years; this view is above the town, among the vines, and it is painted very freely – the forms are barely fixed and the colour carries everything.
Our version is not a print. The trunks are drawn in a single long pass, while the slope is built from short unblended touches that leave the ground showing through in places. A hand-painted canvas keeps that difference in the way the paint sits, which printed paper cannot imitate.
The warm orange-and-green subject is easy to place in a living room, a dining room or a kitchen, and copes with less light. For a smaller wall 80 x 70 cm is enough; above a larger piece of furniture we recommend 120 x 100 cm. We paint to order, in a different size on request. Before dispatch we send you a photograph of the finished canvas for your approval. Every hand-painted painting The Vineyards at Cagnes arrives ready to hang, with the canvas stretched on a wooden frame.
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