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Claude “Coco” Renoir Sr. (1901-1969) - Find a Grave Memorial.
Often considered the most exuberant and sensuous of the Impressionists, Pierre-Auguste Renoir came from a family of working-class artisans.
Renoir was the only one among his peers who could not rely on financial help from his family to start a career as an artist.
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Renoir's father was a tailor, and Renoir's mother a seamstress. The family moved from Limoges to Paris in to try to make more money.
According to Pierre-Auguste's younger brother Edmond:
"We lived on the rue d'Argenteuil, in a flat scarcely large enough to hold all seven of us.
Most happily, an additional room of sloping ceilings on the sixth floor of the house devolved upon my brother and me. In our little garret we were masters and we profited by it, arguing until late into the night without our father interfering as before, to make us be quiet and to put out our little lamp.
We were dying with desire to instruct ourselves; evening courses on all subjects, including drawing, did not satisfy us, and endless reading