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- NAME: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- OCCUPATION: Painter
- BIRTH DATE: February 25, 1841
- DEATH DATE: December 03, 1919
- EDUCATION: Ecole des Beaux-Arts
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Limoges, France
- PLACE OF DEATH: Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
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A leading Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the most famous artists of the early twentieth century.
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Renoir died that December at his home in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France. He was buried next to his wife, Aline (who died in 1915), in her hometown of Essoyes, France.
Besides leaving behind over two hundred works of art, Renoir served as an inspiration to so many other artists—Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso are just a few who benefitted from Renoir's artistic style and methods.
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