Renoir - Dances

Renoir has a Technicolor sensibility, enhanced by his belief that the eye, rather than the hands, was responsible for the creation of a work of art. Consider, for example, that loveliest of Renoir’s early scenes from French country life, the much-reproduced “Dance at Bougival” (1883). It is not only the distillation of the painter’s craft but the idealized essence of courtship.