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Really enjoy how Van Vogh's line works eventually translate into his brushstrokes! I think that's the beauty in his sketches :)

Attached abstracts by Rachael White Young below as I really love how she celebrates this work. Enjoy!!

"Renoir painted La femme aux lilas at the height of the Impressionist moment. Nini Lopez, one of the artist’s favorite models of this time, is pictured in a moment of peaceful introspection, clutching a voluminous bouquet of blossoming lilacs, their delicacy and luminosity echoed in her youthful beauty. The figure and the interior setting are conveyed with the same delicate, rapidly deployed brushstrokes, as Renoir created a masterful synthesis of light and harmonious color across the surface of the canvas. This piece was produced when Renoir turned to those who lived near him in Montmartre, painting laundresses, seamstresses, milliners, and artists’ models, those of a similar working class background to his own. Upon the canvas, he transformed these women, often his friends or acquaintances, into modish Parisiennes, pictured in the latest fashions, at cafés, dance halls, on the city’s newly constructed boulevards and streets, as well as in quiet interior or garden settings.

Described by Rivière as “an ideal model: punctual, serious, and discreet, she took up no more room than a cat in the studio... She had a marvelous head of shining, golden blond hair, long eyelashes beneath well-arched brows and a profile of classical purity” (quoted in N. Wadley, ed., Renoir: A Retrospective, New York, 1987, p. 87). This extraordinary work also has an esteemed provenance: formerly in the legendary collection of Alexandre Berthier, 4th Prince de Wagram, it was later acquired in 1929 by the famed collectors, Joan Whitney and Charles Shipman Payson, and passed down to their daughter, the late Lorinda “Linda” Payson de Roulet, remaining in the family’s collection for almost a century."