Pierre-Auguste Renoir's (1841-1919) timelessly charming paintings
still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beauty. Derived
from our large-format volume, the most comprehensive retrospective
of his work published to date, this compact edition examines the
personal history and motivation behind the legend. Though he began
by painting landscapes in the Impressionist style, Renoir found his
true affinity in portraits, after which he abandoned the
Impressionists altogether. Though often misunderstood, Renoir
remains one of history's most well-loved painters-undoubtedly
because his works exude such warmth, tenderness, and good spirit.
In an incisive text tracing the artist's career and stylistic
evolution, Gilles Neret shows how Renoir reinvented the painted
female form, with his everyday goddesses and their plump contours,
rounded hips and breasts. Renoir's later phase, marked by his
return to the simple pleasure of the female nude in his Bathers
series, was his most innovative and stylistically influential, and
would inspire such masters as Matisse and Picasso. With a complete
chronology, bibliography, photos, sketches, and brilliant
reproductions, this is the essential work of reference on this
enduring master artist. About the series TASCHEN is 40! Since we
started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has
become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms
around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and
aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of
incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40
series presents new editions of some of the stars of our
program-now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized
with the same commitment to impeccable production.
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