Pierre Auguste RENOIR (after) - The sleeper, oil on canvas

Auguste Renoir : (1841-1919) is one of the most famous french painters. He was born in Limoges on February 25th 1841 and he died at the domaine des Collettes in Cagnes-sur-Mer on December 3rd 1919. He is considered as a full member of the impressionnist group, although his approach became different with the years. Indeed his style eolved in the 1880's towards a more realistic style, under the influence of Raffaelo. He was a painter of nudes, portraits, landscapes, marines, still lifes, genre scenes, pastelist, engraver, lithographer, sculptor and draughtsman. He was a figurative painter, more interested in depicting portraits and feminine nudes than landscapes. He elarborated an original way of painting, which goes beyond his first influences (Fragonard, Courbet, Monet, and italian frescoes). For about 60 years, he produced around 6000 paintings.

Musée d'art et d'histoire de Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
Fondation Collection E.G. Bührle (Switzerland)
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart Am Römerholz (Switzerland)
The Bridgestone Museum of art Ishibashi Foundation (Japan)
The Phillips Collection (The USA)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (The USA)
Columbus museum of art (The USA)
Musée de la Chartreuse (France)
Northumbria University Gallery & Baring Wing (United Kingdom)
Belvedere Museum (Austria)
Musée d'art moderne Ceret (France)
Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes (France)
Musée Rodin (France)
Le musée d'Orsay (France)
The Thyssen Bornemisza Collection (Spain)
Musée des Beaux Arts, Montréal (Canada)
Musée Renoir (France)
RISD (Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art) (The USA)
Louisiana State University Museum of Art (The USA)
Collection François Depeaux (France)
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (The USA)
The Barnes Foundation (The USA)
Kröller-Müller Museum (Netherlands)
The Courtauld Institute of Art (United Kingdom)
Queensland art Gallery (Australia)
Crocker Art Museum (The USA)
Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma (Finland)
Göteborg Art Museum (Sweden)
Art Gallery of South Australia (Australia)
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (United Kingdom)
Ashmolean Museum of Art (United Kingdom)
Hamburger Kunsthalle (Germany)
The Indianapolis Museum of Art (The USA)
Tacoma art Museum (The USA)
Carnegie Museum of art (The USA)
McNay Art Museum (The USA)
Toledo Museum of Art (The USA)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
The Nahmad Collection (Monaco)
The Farjam Collection (U.A.E)
Städelmuseum (Germany)
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e contemporanea (GAM) (Italy)
LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura (Switzerland)
Neue Pinakothek (Germany)
National Gallery of Art, Washington (The USA)
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel)
Fuji Art Museum (Japan)
National Galleries of Scotland (United Kingdom)
Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg (France)
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (Canada)
Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne (France)
Musée de L'orangerie (France)
KunstMuseum Bern (Switzerland)
Horsens Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (The USA)
The New Art Gallery (United Kingdom)
Israel Museum (Israel)
MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - Argentina (Argentina)
The Noro Foundation
Musée des Beaux arts de Lyon (France)
Albertina (Austria)
Musée des Beaux Arts d'Alger (Algeria)
The Paul Allen Collection (The USA)
The Juan Abello Collection (Spain)
Musée cantonal des Beaux arts, Lausanne (Switzerland)
Detroit Institute of Arts Museum (The USA)
Museum of Fine Arts (Houston) (The USA)
Merkel collection & foundation (Germany)
Werner et Gabrielle Merzbacher collection (Switzerland)
National Museum of Western Art & Matsukata Collection (Japan)
Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (Germany)
Figge Art Museum (The USA)
High Museum of Art (The USA)
Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (Uruguay)
Musée des Beaux Arts, Rouen (France)
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Germany)
Oklahoma city Museum of art (The USA)
The University of Oklahoma Museum of Art (The USA)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York (The USA)
Portland Museum of Art (The USA)
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (The USA)
Wichita Art Museum (The USA)
Villa Flora Sammlung Hahnloser (Switzerland)
Musée Malraux (France)
Das Museum Folkwang (Germany)
The Art Institute of Chicago (The USA)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The USA)
National Museum Stokholm (Sweden)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli (Italy)
Musée Marmottan Monet (France)
The Wadsworth Atheneum (The USA)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (Germany)
David Owsley Museum of Art (Ball State University)
Des Moines Art Center (The USA)
Saint Louis Museum of Art (The USA)
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (The USA)
Harvard Art Museums (Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum) (The USA)
Pushkin Museum (Russia)
Philadelphia Museum of Art (The USA)
Musée des beaux arts de Limoges (France)
Coninx Museum (Switzerland)
New Orleans Museum of Art (The USA)
The National Gallery (London)
Collection "Peindre en Normandie" (France)
The Cleveland Museum of Art (The USA)
Ordrupgaard (Denmark)
Utah Museum of Fine Art (The USA)
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (The USA)
Memorial Art Gallery Rochester (The USA)
Kunstmuseum Winterthur (Switzerland)
Joslyn Art Museum (The USA)
Ohara Museum of Art (Japan)
MARGS (Brazil)
Art Gallery of Hamilton (Canada)
DePaul Art Museum (The USA)
Ny Carlsberg Glyptoteket (Denmark)
David Winton Bell Gallery - Brown University (The USA)
Haggerty Museum at Marquette University (The USA)
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud (Germany)
The Fitzwilliam Museum (United Kingdom)
Arkas Sanat Merkezi (Turkey)
Juan Antonio Perez Simón Collection (México)
Huntington Gallery of Art (The USA)
Museo Botero (Colombia)
Le Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (France)
Chrysler Museum (The USA)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (The USA)
The Kreeger Museum (The USA)
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-e-Fonds (Switzerland)
Musée de Soissons (France)
GAM Galleria d'arte moderna Milano (Italy)
Collection Gelonch Viladegut