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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Artist

The Resume

    (February 25, 1841-December 3, 1919)
    Paintings include 'A Girl with a Watering Can,' 'Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette,' 'Madame Charpentier and Her Children,' 'Portrait of Jeanne Samary,' 'La Loge,' 'Woman With Fan,' 'The Bathers,' 'The Swing,' 'The Luncheon of the Boating Party' and 'Vase With Chrysanthemums'

Why he might be annoying:

    He was a child laborer, working in a porcelain factory.
    His paintings first exhibited in 1864, but went unnoticed for ten years.
    He said: 'I do not know if I would have become painter if God had not created the female bosom.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He worked with fellow French impressionist Claude Monet.
    He painted his friends and lovers.
    His paintings hang in The NYC Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Courtauld Institute Galleries, London and Musée du Louvre.
    His hands were crippled by arthritis for the last twenty years of his life.
    He continued to paint by tying a paint brush to his arm.
    Research: Tim Howard

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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 100 Votes: 52.00% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 11 Votes: 27.27% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 122 Votes: 59.02% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 22 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 18 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 12 Votes: 41.67% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 92 Votes: 64.13% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 35 Votes: 34.29% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 47 Votes: 34.04% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 89 Votes: 43.82% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 121 Votes: 43.80% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 217 Votes: 41.94% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 343 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 709 Votes: 43.02% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 2324 Votes: 40.40% Annoying