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Lot Essay
From 1893-1895 Renoir rented a studio in the Château des Brouillards on the top of the Butte Montmartre. Jean Renoir writes, "The whole period of my father's stay at the Château des Brouillards was prolific. Renoir told me himself, so if one remembers his usual enormous output one can imagine the prodigious amount of paintings he did at this period. The place inspired him" (J. Renoir, My Father, London, 1962, p. 250).
With the Sacré-Coeur depicted in the distance, two young girls converse in the foreground surrounded by a lush, green foliage which fills the canvas. Barbara E. White writes:
Tangible forms are surrounded by a warm atmosphere created by expressive brushstrokes of vibrant color and sparkling light. Classical feelings of weightiness and universality are blended with Impressionist feelings of movement and joyfulness (B.E. White, Renoir, His Life, Art and Letters, New York, 1984, p. 217).
With the Sacré-Coeur depicted in the distance, two young girls converse in the foreground surrounded by a lush, green foliage which fills the canvas. Barbara E. White writes:
Tangible forms are surrounded by a warm atmosphere created by expressive brushstrokes of vibrant color and sparkling light. Classical feelings of weightiness and universality are blended with Impressionist feelings of movement and joyfulness (B.E. White, Renoir, His Life, Art and Letters, New York, 1984, p. 217).