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“I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.”
It’s not just something your pervy artist uncle says after too much wine, it’s actually the real-life motto of one Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
This painting, known as Nude Seated on Sofa or Female Nude (Anna) is indicative of Renoir’s penchant for painting plump young pretties sans petticoats. Little is known about young Anna but it is believed that she is the same model used for Renoir’s ill-received Nude in the Sun. Likely a seamstress, Anna was around 19 when Renoir painted her two nudes between 1874-1876. Though I think she looks fine as hell, critics definitely disagreed. One critic said of Nude in the Sun that he wanted to “Try to explain to M. Renoir that a woman's torso is not a mass of decomposing flesh.” I guess the #RenoirSucksAtPainting movement started long before Instagram and Twitter were a thing.
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Here is what Wikipedia says about Female Nude (Renoir, 1876)
Female Nude is an 1876 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, also known as Nude Woman Sitting on a Couch, Anna (after its model), After Bathing and Pearl. It is housed in the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow, and is an example of Renoir's many nude paintings, a recurring subject that preoccupied him throughout his life. The painting was created in the characteristic soft brush strokes of the Impressionist movement to emphasise feminine beauty.
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