Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Young Girls in Black
| Year of creation: | 1880 |
| Original size: | 81.3 cm x 65.2 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow |
Young Girls in Black is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir from 1880. The original measures 81.3 x 65.2 cm, is recorded under inventory number Ж-3329 and is held by the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. Our hand-painted painting Young Girls in Black is made in oil on canvas, in eight sizes from 65 x 80 to 140 x 170 cm.
Two young women in black coats and black hats sit at a table. The nearer faces us with her chin resting against her hand; the other is turned towards her, speaking. Behind them further figures dissolve into a soft blur, and on the table at the right stand a glass and a piece of fruit. The picture is almost entirely black — and it is in that black that Renoir finds blue, brown and violet.
Our version is not a print. In this subject the difference is at its clearest: the black is not one flat surface but a run of individual strokes of oil colour, laid side by side with a brush, which read differently as the light changes. The paint keeps the thickness of the load and the track of the bristles, which printed paper cannot imitate, so an oil painting on canvas behaves differently from a flat printed surface.
The dark, quiet subject works well in a room with pale walls, in an office, or in a dining room, where the picture holds the eye without loud colour. For a smaller wall 80 x 100 cm is enough; above a larger piece of furniture we recommend 100 x 120 cm.
We paint to order, and in other sizes on request. Before despatch we send you a photograph of the finished canvas for your approval. Every hand-painted painting Young Girls in Black arrives ready to hang, stretched on a wooden frame.
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