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Author: Eliza E. Rathbone
Publisher: GILES
ISBN: 9781911282006
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A 'who's-who' guide to Pierre-Auguste Renoir's iconic Luncheon of the Boating Party.

Author: Scala Publishers, Ltd.
Publisher: Scala Books
ISBN: 9781857592917
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Renoir masterfully created Luncheon of the Boating Party's enchanting mood by capturing a contemporary moment - 19th-century leisure on the Seine - and the universal appeal of celebration. He also combined several of the traditional categories of painting: still life, landscape, portraiture and genre. The result is a timeless work that captures the atmosphere of an idyllic place, where friends share the pleasures of food, wine and conversation. Scala's new 4-fold format is ideal for displaying this exquisite painting. It showcases archival photographs that identify the revellers, and x-rays of the painting, which reveal little-known compositional changes, as well as details and images that fold out to bring this late 19th-century icon to life. 38 colour & 19 b/w illustrations

Author: Barbara Ehrlich White
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 050077403X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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A major new biography of this enduringly popular artist by the world’s foremost scholar of his life and work Expertly researched and beautifully written by the world’s leading authority on Auguste Renoir’s life and work, Renoir fully reveals this most intriguing of Impressionist artists. The narrative is interspersed with more than 1,100 extracts from letters by, to, and about Renoir, 452 of which come from unpublished letters. Renoir became hugely popular despite great obstacles: thirty years of poverty followed by thirty years of progressive paralysis of his fingers. Despite these hardships, much of his work is optimistic, even joyful. Close friends who contributed money, contacts, and companionship enabled him to overcome these challenges to create more than 4,000 paintings. Renoir had intimate relationships with fellow artists (Caillebotte, Cézanne, Monet, and Morisot), with his dealers (Durand-Ruel, Bernheim, and Vollard) and with his models (Lise, Aline, Gabrielle, and Dédée). Barbara Ehrlich White’s lifetime of research informs this fascinating biography that challenges common misconceptions surrounding Renoir’s reputation. Since 1961 White has studied more than 3,000 letters relating to Renoir and gained unique insight into his personality and character. Renoir provides an unparalleled and intimate portrait of this complex artist through images of his own iconic paintings, his own words, and the words of his contemporaries. “Barbara White is a biographer of courage, seriousness and unrelenting honesty. She has read and dissected about 3,000 letters about Renoir written by him, his friends, his family, as well as the newspapers of the day. Practically every member of the Renoir family has entrusted their personal documents to her – a pledge of trust totally deserved. Whenever I am asked a question about Auguste, I write to Barbara to ask her opinion or call on her knowledge, since she has become an indisputable reference for me. She is always careful and verifies facts and contexts by every route possible. The Renoir family, and Auguste himself, are very lucky that Barbara is so passionate about her subject, and I feel personally lucky to know her. I thank her from the bottom of my heart for this work of a lifetime – a magnificent success. I am very pleased that her book has been edited by the quality editors at Thames & Hudson, as it will remain a point of reference for many generations to come.” – Sophie Renoir (great-granddaughter of Auguste Renoir, granddaughter of his eldest son Pierre, and daughter of Renoir’s grandson Claude Renoir, Jr.), June 7, 2017

Author: Eliza E. Rathbone
Publisher: Basic Civitas Books
ISBN: 9781887178211
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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This large-format art book features more than sixty four-color reproductions of riverscapes by Renoir, Monet, Manet, Sisley, Pissarro, Morisot, and Caillebotte. It puts special focus on the centerpiece of The Phillips Collection, Renoir's much-loved Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881), and celebrates the importance of the Seine in the hearts and minds of Parisians during the late nineteenth century.

Author: Susan Vreeland
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101202289
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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From the bestelling author of GIRL IN HYACINTH BLUE, "A vivid exploration of one of the most beloved Renoir paintings in the world, done with a flourish worthy of Renoir himself" (USA Today) With her richly textured novels, Susan Vreeland has offered pioneering portraits of artists' lives. As she did in Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Vreeland focuses on a single painting, Auguste Renoir's instantly recognizable masterpiece, which depicts a gathering of Renoir's real friends enjoying a summer Sunday on a café terrace along the Seine. Narrated by Renoir and seven of the models, the novel illuminates the gusto, hedonism, and art of the era. With a gorgeous palette of vibrant, captivating characters, Vreeland paints their lives, loves, losses, and triumphs so vividly that "the painting literally comes alive" (The Boston Globe).

Author: Catherine Hewitt
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250157641
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Catherine Hewitt's richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right. In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists’ most beautiful model. But behind her captivating façade lay a closely-guarded secret. Suzanne was born into poverty in rural France, before her mother fled the provinces, taking her to Montmartre. There, as a teenager Suzanne began posing for—and having affairs with—some of the age’s most renowned painters. Then Renoir caught her indulging in a passion she had been trying to conceal: the model was herself a talented artist. Some found her vibrant still lifes and frank portraits as shocking as her bohemian lifestyle. At eighteen, she gave birth to an illegitimate child, future painter Maurice Utrillo. But her friends Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas could see her skill. Rebellious and opinionated, she refused to be confined by tradition or gender, and in 1894, her work was accepted to the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, an extraordinary achievement for a working-class woman with no formal art training. Renoir’s Dancer tells the remarkable tale of an ambitious, headstrong woman fighting to find a professional voice in a male-dominated world.

Author: Alix Wood
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1477755225
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir came from humble means and started out as an apprentice. After taking free art classes, he was admitted to a well-known art school in Paris and went on to become one of the greatest Impressionist painters. Readers learn about his life in Paris, his famous painter friends, and the Impressionist movement. The text features some of Renoir’s earliest and best-known works, along with the stories behind their creation. Information-rich sidebars aid in bringing Renoir’s artistic biography to life.

Author: Jean Renoir
Publisher: London : Collins
ISBN: 9780316740104
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as "Grand Illusion" and "The Rules of the Game," tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, beginning as a painter of fans and porcelain, recording the rules of thumb by which he worked, and capturing his unpretentious and wonderfully engaging talk and personality, Jean Renoir's book is both a wonderful double portrait of father and son and, in the words of the distinguished art historian John Golding, it " remains the best account of Renoir, and, furthermore, among the most beautiful and moving biographies we have." Includes 12 pages of color plates and 18 pages of black and white images.

Author: Barbara Ehrlich White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Reprint. Originally published: New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1984.

Author: Sabine Miller
Publisher: Character-19
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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Renoir was renowned for his works with their vibrant light and color and the harmony of the lines he portrayed within his landscapes and figure paintings. At the beginning of his prolific career he employed the Impressionist techniques, where detail was denied and replaced with soft fusions between characters and their surroundings. While he moved away from this style in the middle of his career – known as his Ingres Period, where he concentrated on more definition like the conventional and traditional painters – he returned to the softness of his earlier style toward the end of his life. Renoir was greatly influenced by artists such as Rubens, Titian, Raphael, Eugène Delacroix, and his contemporary and friend, Claude Monet (1840-1926). Alongside Monet, he became obsessed with painting en plein air and exploring the subject matter provided by the open countryside toward the late 1860s. He firmly believed that black did not produce a shadow, but that shadows were reflected color of the objects surrounding them. Renoir celebrated beauty in all its forms. He was particularly interested in female sensuality and many of his paintings were of nudes. He was a prolific artist of figures and turned away from landscapes in order to capture the essence of figures and often used his friends and family in his works. In fact, when it came to large groups of figures, he would paint in his friends and associates so that his works became large versions of portraitures rather than just a crowd scene. While being a founding member of the Impressionist movement, Renoir is perhaps known for his depictions of pretty children, flowers, idyllic scenes, and his nudes; The Bathers is perhaps amongst his most sensual works. He was devoted to his painting throughout his life and experimented right up to his death in 1919.