Dance in the City
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1883)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Dance in the City stages an urban waltz where decorum and desire briefly coincide. A couple’s close embrace—his black tailcoat enclosing her luminous white satin gown—creates a <strong>cool, elegant</strong> harmony against potted palms and marble. Renoir’s refined, post‑Impressionist touch turns social ritual into <strong>sensual modernity</strong> <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
