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[[reverse side of photo of Renoir's "Venus holding an Apple]] 

allow any words of his own to cause injustice to a newcomer. Th[[cut off]]
his opinion of Matisse, he practically declined to answer, pleadin[[cut off]]
with the work of the younger generation. Hearing of this, one o[[cut off]]
Renoir: he will never say an unkind word about anyone - not e[[cut off]]
bear." But, in 1918, his refusal to commit himself to a premature [[cut off]]
was rewarded by the satisfaction of realizing that art was safe in[[cut off]]
-tion. In Matisse, he exclaimed, was "painting, good painting!"

Renoir's career was one of extraordinary continuity. Throug[[cut off]]
those bits of decoration on porcelain which he had made as a y[[cut off]]
minders that he himself, the famous artist, had begun as a memb[[cut off]]
heir to its traditions. He meant high praise when he said that Céz[[cut off]]
the old masters of ceramics.

As we leaf through the illustrations to this volume we shall [[cut off]]
Renoir's Courbetesque beginnings developed into a further stu[[cut off]]
and the other Impressionists, he made an intensive analysis of [[cut off]]
During his next stage, under the impact of masterpieces seen at [[cut off]]
his new realization of the possibilities revealed to him by Ingres [[cut off]]
-ligible transition from his Impressionist period took place A p[[cut off]]
[[image - sketch of a woman]]
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to the Girl wit[[cut off]]
Période aigre. [[cut off]]
-ing opulence a[[cut off]]
unfolding of w[[cut off]]
true, that astou[[cut off]]
of his life, can [[cut off]]
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repeats, after a [[cut off]]
Madame Renio[[cut off]]
Renior's sculptu[[cut off]]
powerful rende[[cut off]]
canvas, but was [[cut off]]
his boyhood dis[[cut off]]

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