Renoir, My Father (New York Review Books Classics)
by Jean Renoir
from NYRB Classics
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.
Renoir: A Master of Impressionism (Great Masters)
by Gerhard Gruitrooy
from New Line Books
120+ color photos. 9 1/4 x 12 3/4.
These handsomely illustrated volumes offer insight into the lives and works of those few unique individuals whose extraordinary creative genius has affected suceeding generations of artists and altered the way we view the world around us.
Capturing the transient beauty of nature, Renoir was skilled at landscapes as well as portraiture. From outdoor paintings to depictions of bathers, this volume offers an intimate view of the artist and his work.
Auguste Renoir: Book of 30 Postcards (Postcard Books (Todtri Productions))
from New Line Books
These handsome volumes of postcards feature the artworks of the great modern masters, reproduced in brilliant full color. The cards are detachable and can be used to send messages to friends or as informal decoration for the home or office. Easily stored, they can also serve as inexpensive guides to some of the masterpieces of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
Renoir Landscapes: 1865-1883 (National Gallery Company)
by Colin B. Bailey
from National Gallery London
This stunning book is the first to examine Renoir’s landscape art in depth, tracing its evolution from the beginning of his career through his Impressionist period and the early 1880s, when he began to incorporate new landscape motifs and new levels of coloristic intensity in paintings after traveling to Algeria and Italy. With over 200 illustrations, a detailed chronology, and bibliography, the book includes essays by highly distinguished scholars that discuss the range and importance of these works and present many fresh discoveries. They also place Renoir’s landscapes in the overall context of the genre in 19th-century France, revealing how his experiments were radical and––in ways that have not yet been fully acknowledged––influential on the later development of modern art.
Berthe Morisot, the Correspondence With Her Family and Friends: Manet, Puvis De Chavannes, Degas, Monet, Renoir, and Mallarme
by Berthe Morisot
from Moyer Bell
Renoir at the Theatre: Looking at La Loge (Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery)
from Paul Holberton Publishing
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's La Loge (The Theatre Box), 1874, is one of the masterpieces of Impressionism. Its depiction of an elegant couple on display in a box at the theatre epitomizes the Impressionists' interest in the spectacle of modern life. At the heart of the painting is the complex play of gazes enacted by these two figures. In turning away from the performance, Renoir focused instead upon the theatre as a social stage where status and relationships were on public display.
This book unites La Loge with Renoir's other treatments of the subject and with loge paintings by contemporaries, including Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas. Concentrating on the early years of Impressionism during the 1870s, the book explores how these artists used the loge to capture the excitement and changing nature of fashionable Parisian society. Lavishly produced contemporary journals such as La Mode Illustrée included fine hand-coloured engravings showing the latest fashions modelled by elegant ladies in theatre boxes. A rich selection of this little-known graphic material from contemporary Parisian journals, as well as caricatures from the popular press, are also examined.
Renoir's Table
by Jean-bernard Naudin
from Simon & Schuster
Condition Used. Excellent. Dust cover included. This companion volume to the bestselling Monet's Table is a sumptuous evocation of the life, art, and dining style of one of the world's most celebrated Impressionist painters. It presents more than 60 recipes, accompanied by reproductions of Renoir's paintings and original full-color photos of turn-of-the-century French life.
Six Renoir Paintings Cards (Small-Format Card Books)
by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
from Dover Publications
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