china-painter

Updated: October 2, 2025

But what is certain is that, during his last period, since 1900 that is to say, though so crippled by rheumatism that it is with agonizing difficulty he handles a brush, he has produced works that surpass even the masterpieces of his middle age. Renoir was born in 1841, and in '54 bound prentice to a china-painter.

Clive Bell - Since Cézanne