"Terrasse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... race run in the heat and dust of his younger years. In 1904, describing the autumn exhibition, I wrote: "In the Renoir salle a few of the better things of this luscious brush were to be found, paintings of his middle period, that first won him favour. For example, Sur la Terrasse, with its audacious crimson, like the imperious challenge of a trumpet; La Loge and its gorgeous fabrics; a Baigneuse in a light-green scheme; the quaint head of Jeanne Samary—a rival portrait to Besnard's faun-like Rejane—and a lot of Renoir's later experimentings, as fugitive ...
— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker |
