Excerpt from Ninety-Six Original Drawings by Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) This extraordinary collection of Pastels by Renoir, now offered for sale, comes from the same source as the 33 Oil Paintings and 3 Pastels sold at the Anderson Galleries on February oth last. They were all pur chased in Paris nine years ago by a New York collector who obtained them from a lady, an intimate friend of Renoir's, to whom the artist gave them. These pastels are the intimate thoughts and summary ex pressions of the master. They have a spontaneity and a gaiety that do not always mark his large, important pictures. Some of these exquisite nudes are more worked upon than others, especially those in which he has allowed himself a free and dazzling use of white chalk. The ma jority are signed either Renoir in full, or with an R. Thirty - nine have a drawing or drawings on each side of the paper. These have been framed so that the front and back drawings can be seen. A well-known artist who was acquainted with Renoir, and who is familiar with his work, after examining these 96 pastels, his enthusiasm rising as he turned them over, said, I never knew the beggar was as clever as this. The nude's the thing. What variety! What endless variety l. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.