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| Letter to Mr. Françios Daulte - August 18, 1996 |
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August 18, 1996
Mr. Françios Daulte
50, Avenue de Rumine
CH-1005 Lausanne
Switzerland
Dear Sir,
The pastel water color painting study shows every concept Renoir had between classicism and the theory of irregurlism. The bodies are drawn in the classical manner and with hands showing irregurlism. The drawing is the compilation of all the previous studies for the Great Bathers. The pastel I posses is diametrically opposite to the non-classical and nonlinear impressionist black and white drawing in the Louvre Museum 1883-1885. The pastel I own shows Renoir’s most classical attempt to draw like Rubens and Ingres; my pastel has a more beautifully more realistic colored Ruben’s like buttocks than the black and white Louvre drawing, 1883-1885. My pastel also shows very linear lines in the wrists and hands with a body showing complex spontaneous linear lines being in true proportion to the final painting hanging in the Cagnes Museum. This pastel painting study has softer and evenly shaded bodies then the Louve drawing. It is truly a historical and beautiful pastel drawing. The foot and bent toe of the front model in the pastel is from another drawing by the artist at the Fogg Museum. The foot is connected to a Ruben’s type buttocks and legs. Who could draw this with precision spontaneously? The artwork expresses spontaneous drawing without signs of stopping and going, while taking ideas from other drawings and compiling it all into colored study. There is a purpose for this drawing. Line up all the photos together of the studies for the Great Bathers. Without the pastel, there is no color classical body to see, finished writs and hands or shading for the latter “Great Bathers” Cagnes. Logically the artist would make a more classical and linear study for the important front two models of the classical painting “The Great Bathers.” We know Renoir made a classical study for the third model splashing. My pastel fits as the classical study for all the reasons I have been talking about. The pastel drawing shows for the first time the irregurlism finished hands of the models never shown before ever. Who else could make a more sumptuous breast and body in this pastel then Renoir or draw eyes, nose, and hair curls without hesitation? More anxious then ever to hear of your arrival, it has been two and half years writing you and learning about the pastel being not a copy.
Sincerely yours,
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