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André Renoux (1939-2002)
Regarded as the most credentialed 20th
century's Parisian Urban artist, Renoux became
the Godfather of artists in his time. Renoux made
Paris his own by capturing and protecting the
sounds, smells, tastes and textures of the City Of
Lights in his own unique expression of brush to
canvas.
Highly respected in Europe, Renoux is truly one
of France's national treasures. He has now
joined the gallery of great artists of the ages. As
time goes on, he will be remembered as the
artist who captured Paris in our 20th century.
Renoux is the Father of the Paris School of Urban
Realism. Paris by Renoux presents a personal
vision of this magical city and there is something
deceptively simple about his vision.
Renoux enables us to stop and dream before
the old shops and bistros that he has so carefully
preserved in their antiquity.
Born in Oran, Algeria, in 1939 to a family of
Provencal origin, Renoux migrated to France
at the age of ten and first studied painting at
Nice's Ecole des Arts Decoratifs.
"I wasn't born in Paris,” Renoux said. I was born
on a farm in North Africa. So when I arrived in
Paris at age eighteen, the age when you begin
discovering things, a new world awakened
around me.”
André Renoux is published and licensed
exclusively by Bentley Publishing Group in
Walnut Creek, California.
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