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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1841
Born: February 25
Died: 1919
Died: December 3
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How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
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