Bouquet of Chrysanthemums, 1881, Oil on canvas, 26 x 21 7/8 in. (66 x cm), Paintings, Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841

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Bouquet of Chrysanthemums, 1881, Oil on canvas, 26 x 21 7/8 in. (66 x cm), Paintings, Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer), Renoir felt that he had greater freedom to experiment in still lifes than in figure paintings. 'When I paint flowers, I feel free to try out tones and values and worry less about destroying the canvas,' he told the writer Georges Rivière

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