Children Playing Ball, 1900
Pierre Auguste Renoir; Printer: Auguste Clotexpand_more
Color lithographexpand_more
Gift of Mary Lee Lowe Daytonexpand_more 2013.81.2
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The French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir embraced printmaking later in his career, producing over fifty etchings and lithographs in the 1890s. Color lithography had become a favored print medium for many Impressionist artists. Renoir collaborated with a master printer, Auguste Clot, to create this complex work which required six separate stones for the six colors used—pink, red, orange, green, blue, and black. Given the size of the image and number of stones printed, impressions vary, as it was difficult to achieve a perfect alignment and clean registration of colors as found in this impression.
Details
- Title
- Children Playing Ball
- Artist Life
- 1841-1919
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2013.81.2
- Provenance
- Mary Lee Dayton, Wayzata, Minn., until d. 2013; Estate of Mary Lee Dayton; bequeathed to MIA, 2013
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Delteil 32; Stella 32; Roger-Marx 31
- Curator Approved
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