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Renoir painted left-handed after an injury
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AI-generated editorial reconstruction of Renoir painting with his left hand while his right arm is in a sling.
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In February 1880, Pierre-Auguste Renoir fell from a bicycle and broke his right, dominant arm. He was then working on *Luncheon of the Boating Party*. Renoir continued painting with his left hand: in a letter to André Albert, he wrote that he enjoyed using it and thought the result was even better. That was his own assessment, but the letter and a biographer’s account confirm that he did not stop working because of the injury.

