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Renoir (Hardcover)
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Renoir (Hardcover)
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) stands out among the great
artists for his willingness to paint pictures that are
straightforwardly pretty and charming: he chooses familiar and
sympathetic human types as his subjects, and depicts them with an
appealing immediacy, using an attractively bright and rosy palette.
Not all of his four thousand or so paintings are equally good; some
fall short on formal grounds, and others, not surprisingly, sink
into sentimentality. But Renoir's best works are masterpieces,
perhaps the most joyous and effervescent ones in the history of
art--his great monuments to leisure, "Dancing at the Moulin de la
Galette" and "Luncheon of the Boating Party"; his delicate
portraits of women and children, like the winsome "Girl with a
Watering Can"; and his many frankly sensual nudes.
In this highly readable monograph, noted art historian Anne Distel
offers an illuminating new account of the life of the man who
created such singularly sparkling works. The author deftly narrates
Renoir's rise from apprentice porcelain painter to celebrated
artist, quoting judiciously from the painter's own vivid letters
and offering keen analyses of his style at each stage of his
sixty-year career. And Distel does not consider that career in
isolation, but uses the latest discoveries in the documentary
evidence--some of them her own--to re-create the artistic and
social milieus in which Renoir worked. She traces his relationships
with other artists, both his fellow Impressionists and older
contemporaries like Corot and Daubigny as well as the younger
Bonnard, Matisse, and Picasso; with writers like Zola, Mallarme,
and Mirbeau; and, in particular, with the dealers and patrons who
were so important to his career, like Paul Durand-Ruel, Ambroise
Vollard, the Bernheim brothers, the Charpentiers, the Berards,
Charles Ephrussi, and Dr. Barnes.
Distel's authoritative text is illustrated throughout with some
three hundred beautiful color reproductions of the artist's finest
and most representative works, ensuring that this will be the
Renoir monograph of reference for years to come.
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