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He recorded the \u003cb\u003ecity's parks, bars, and cabarets,\u003c\/b\u003e often delighting in the frisson of underground or provocative content. 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His portrayals of everyday goddesses with their plump contours, rounded hips, and breasts, are iconic. Renoir’s later phase, marked by a return to the simple pleasure of the female nude in his Bathers series, was his most innovative and stylistically influential. 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He was one of the first to apply the insights of \u003cb\u003eSigmund Freud\u003c\/b\u003e and psychoanalysis to the art of painting, approaching the subconscious with extraordinary sensitivity and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis publication presents the artist's \u003cb\u003epainted oeuvre\u003c\/b\u003e. After many years of research, \u003cb\u003eRobert Descharnes\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eGilles Néret\u003c\/b\u003e finally located the paintings of this highly prolific artist. 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