About the Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The sale of this famous French painting to an American museum attracted the attention of the press, who reported that the price, $125,000, was the largest yet paid for any work by Renoir. Duncan Phillips proudly wrote back to Washington from Paris that he had acquired for the collection "one of the greatest paintings in the world." ................
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