Signed limited-edition prints can sell in the low hundreds; mechanically produced posters bring much less. You’d have to examine your artwork out of the frame to determine what you have. If you have a signed collotype print it will sell in the $1,000 to $1,500 range; an offset lithograph will sell for $100 to $150.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (born February 25, 1841, Limoges, France—died December 3, 1919, Cagnes), French painter originally associated with the Impressionist movement. His early works were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling colour and light.

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Before his death in 1919, Renoir traveled to the Louvre to see his paintings hanging in the museum alongside the masterpieces of the great masters. He was a prolific artist, created several thousands artworks in his lifetime, and include some of the most well-known paintings in the art world.

Au Moulin de la Galette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Au Moulin de la Galette became one of the world’s most expensive paintings when it sold for $78 million back in 1990. Courtesy of Artnet.

Renoir was a very prolific painter throughout his life, and also executed original lithographs and etchings. Medium: original lithograph.

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Among those who appear in Renoir’s work numerous times in the late 1870s and early 1880s were three actresses—Ellen Andrée, Angèle (who also made a living as a florist), and Jeanne Samary. Angèle may have modeled for the woman in the lower right corner of Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party.

Renoir, like other Impressionists, embraced a brighter palette for his paintings, which gave them a warmer and sunnier feel. He also used different types of brushstrokes to capture his artistic vision on the canvas.

One of the best known Impressionist works is Renoir’s 1876 Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Bal du moulin de la Galette). The painting depicts an open-air scene, crowded with people at a popular dance garden on the Butte Montmartre close to where he lived.

It was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic itself, on permanent display at the Louvre, Paris since 1797. The Mona Lisa is one of the most valuable paintings in the world.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir reveals his true talent in the painting linking the art of collective portrait, still life, and landscape painting. His use of light as well as his fluidity of brushstrokes is typically Impressionistic.

Along with Dance in the City and Dance in the Country, this painting is part of a set of three paintings commissioned by Paul Durand-Ruel, one of Renoir´s greatest supporters. A primary attraction of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, it depicts two of Renoir’s friends, Suzanne Valadon and Paul Auguste Llhote.

Maison Fournaise (House of Fournaise) is a restaurant located on an island in the Seine in Chatou, west of Paris. It serves as the location of not only this panting but another masterpiece by Renoir titled Luncheon of the Boating Party. The elder sister in the painting is Jeanne Darlot, who went on to become an actress.

Beautifully printed 1923 in an edition of 150 on Arches paper at the atelier Jacomet and published in Paris by Bernheim-Jeune for the rare “Renoir, peintre du nu” portfolio. Size: 15 x 11 inches (383 x 277 mm). Not signed. Condition: there are bumps to the corners of the sheet, and the publisher’s binding strip remains attached on the back side.