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Painted in , "Tête de jeune fille" dates from a key period of transition within Pierre-Auguste Renoir&#;s career.
It was at the beginning of that year that the pioneering Impressionist dealer Paul Durand-Ruel had begun to purchase Renoir&#;s work, granting the artist a new level of professional and financial security, which in turn enabled him to travel abroad for the first time.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tête de jeune fille, | Christie's
In the spring of he ventured to North Africa, following in the footsteps of Eugène Delacroix as he sought to add a new sense of exoticism and richness of color to his paintings.
That autumn, meanwhile, was spent touring the great cities of Italy, with the artist visiting Venice, Florence and Rome, before continuing south to Naples.
For Renoir, female portraits offered a pathway to exploring the intricate relationships of color, paint and brushwork in the creation of form.
Studying the faces and bodies of his models in a variety of positions, scenarios and guises, the artist developed a keen appreciation of the ways in which varying effects of light and movement could dramatically alter the color patterns of his subject&#;s skin.
Over the course of his studies during the s, Renoir began to grow increasingly interested in the tactil
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Self-Portrait with Bound Ear
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Testa di donna di profilo
Testa di donna di profilo è un dipinto del pittore francese Pierre-Auguste Renoir, realizzato nel e conservato al Musée d'Orsay di Parigi.
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[modifica | modifica wikitesto]A posare per il dipinto è Margot (Marguerite Legrand), una delle modelle predilette di Renoir, le cui fattezze appaiono appare in molti dipinti degli anni del pittore (si veda La liseuse). Margot era un'amabile fanciulla di Montmartre che «aveva una pelle che rifletteva la luce» (sono queste parole dello stesso Renoir) e che morì nel febbraio di febbre tifoidea. Il suo lutto, ovviamente, fu causa di grande dispiacere per il pittore. L'opera, passata al medico Paul Gachet (appassionato collezionista di quadri impressionisti), giunse al Louvre nel , per poi trovare la sua collocazione definitiva nel all'Orsay.[1]
L'opera si presenta come l'immagine di un'istantanea fotografica scattata da Renoir di fronte al motivo che lo ha sedotto. Margot è colta con un'inquadratura che ne accentua la grazia della posa e presenta uno sguardo pensoso, rivolto verso chissà dove e acceso dalla luce che la inonda a pieno volto. Il candore della sua pelle, oltre a far risaltare le labbra rosee, è trattato con un modellato attentamente studiato e conferisce al viso una d