Dance in the City

Dance in the City
Artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Year 1883
Type Oil paint on canvas
Location Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Dance in the City is a painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.<ref name="The New Yorker - 7 February 2012 - Renoir at The Frick: Go See "Dance at Bougival"">Peter Schjeldahl (February 7, 2012). "Renoir at The Frick: Go See "Dance at Bougival"". The New Yorker (Condé Nast). Retrieved 13 September 2014. </ref> The 1883 work is in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay.[1] The dancers are model and artist Suzanne Valadon and Renoir's friend Paul Auguste Lhote.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 [http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/painting/commentaire_id/city-dance-country-dance-8908.html?tx_commentaire_pi1[pidLi]=509&tx_commentaire_pi1[from]=841&cHash=287e0fb5ef "Pierre Auguste Renoir: City Dance, Country Dance"]. Musée d'Orsay. 2006. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  2. Sebastian Smee (18 May 2012). "At MFA, dancing the night away in the arms of Renoir". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
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