# Auguste Renoir artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-18T18:55:40.681Z
Quality: high confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Movements: Impressionism
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture, Works on paper and prints, Decorative art and editions

## Portrait

![Auguste Renoir](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Pierre_Auguste_Renoir%2C_uncropped_image.jpg)
Unknown Unknown Musée d'Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre_Auguste_Renoir,_uncropped_image.jpg

## About Auguste Renoir

Auguste Renoir, commonly catalogued as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, was a French painter and sculptor who lived from 1841 to 1919. He is widely associated with Impressionism and is especially recognized for art centered on human figures and feminine beauty. Museum and authority records using the forms “Pierre-Auguste Renoir,” “Auguste Renoir,” and “Renoir, Auguste” help distinguish him across collection and auction databases. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with paintings, works on paper, prints, sculpture, mixed-media objects, decorative art, and editions. These categories are not interchangeable: an original painting, an individual print, an editioned work, or an object carrying qualified attribution language requires different research. For an artist with an extensive auction history, secure identification depends on matching the object's medium, date, inscriptions, provenance, and catalogue references to reliable records rather than relying on the artist name alone.

## Common works and media

Auction records indexed under Renoir's name span fine-art paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art or editions. For prints and editioned objects, the edition details, inscriptions, condition, and attribution wording should be documented. Paintings and works on paper should likewise be assessed for medium, dimensions, date, surface condition, restoration, provenance, and catalogue references before comparable sales are selected.

## Market and appraisal context

Renoir auction results should be compared within closely related groups rather than treated as a single price series. Medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration, subject, provenance, signature or inscriptions, edition information, and attribution confidence can all affect the relevance of a comparable sale. Exhibition history and catalogue references may provide additional context. Public records can omit private transactions and may reflect different treatments of buyer premiums and fees, while later research can change an attribution. An appraisal should therefore examine the physical object and its documentation, then compare it with recent public sales sharing similar characteristics; a broad artist-level median or price range is not a substitute for object-specific analysis.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Private sales, incomplete feeds, fee conventions, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39931
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500115467
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/29643005/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/03455338X
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/4869
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/auguste-renoir-1828
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1823.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/auguste-renoir/