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Renoir strapped brushes to his wrists when arthritis hit
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir entirely refused to let intense physical agony stop his cheerful impressionism. In his later years, crippling rheumatoid arthritis mangled his hands so badly he physically couldn't hold a paintbrush. Instead of retiring, he just had his assistants tightly bandage the brushes directly to his paralyzed wrists, continuing to paint through sheer stubbornness.
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