Auguste Renoir

Alexander Auf der Heyde

Renoir, Jean

Margherita D'Ayala Valva

Describes the career of French painter Pierre Auguste Renoir, and presents and briefly discusses more than forty of his masterpieces.

Renoir

"A leading member of the impressionist movement, Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) exhibited regularly at the annual Salons, where he strove to enliven an establishment that had become stodgy with academic and history painting. Renoir's paintings of Parisians engaging in leisurely pasttimes, enjoying their dejeuner under a pergola or beside the Seine at an open-air cafe, sailing, swimming, picnicking, and dancing at one of the many halls in towns outside of the city, are imbued with a sense of conviviality and joie de vivre that was wholly new to the Salons. Renoir was enchanted by his subjects: whether friends, lovers, patrons, collectors, or family members, his portraits are characterized by gesture, expression, and a soft palette full of light, conveying a sense of pleasure in observation and always the charm of the individual portrayed. Brought together here are some of this prodigious artist's most significant canvases, including the luminous Le Moulin de la Galette, Luncheon of the Boating Party, and La Grenouillere."--BOOK JACKET.

Roger Benjamin

Sylvie Patry

Claudia Einecke

This volume is a biography of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. This work dedicates itself to the final three decades of Renoir's career in which the painter turned away from Impressionism and toward a more decorative approach informed by his own idiosyncratic interpretation of art history. During this period, Renoir was initially looking at painters such as Rubens, Titian and Raphael, and dedicating himself to cheery subjects such as bathers, domestic idylls and landscapes that were influenced by both classical mythology and by his relocation to the South of France.

Renoir in the 20th Century

Catherine Nichols

Discusses the life and work of the French Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Barbara Ehrlich White

For twenty years, White has devoted much of her life to searching out unpublished letters, drawings and documents that reveal Renoir's life as an artist and as a man. 400 illustrations, with 125 in color, include seldom reproduced works as well as intimate photos of Renoir's family and homes.

His Life, Art, and Letters

Milton S. Fox

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Augustin de Butler

Renoir is celebrated as a "painter of happiness," but is all too often reduced to the one cliché. This is the first extensive examination of the painter's early oeuvre in the border zone between the bohemian and the bourgeois milieu in which he felt most at home. The fifteen-year period it covers was a time of great upward mobility for Renoir: having risen up from his parents' petit-bourgeois origins, he was soon at the heart of the bohemian milieu inhabited by his friends and fellow artists, and by the end of the 1870s had become a welcome guest at the salons of the haute bourgeoisie. -- Jacket.

Between Bohemia and Bourgeoisie : the Early Years

Rosamund Frost

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

A Special Exhibition of His Paintings

William Gaunt

Juliet Rodway

A Rich and Varied Selection of Renoir's Best-known Paintings

The Little Book of Renoir

Johanna Halford-MacLeod

Scala Publishers, Ltd.

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 paintin

Luncheon of the Boating Party

Barnes Foundation

Martha Lucy

John House

A spectacular survey of the world's most comprehensive collection of works by the Impressionist master Renoir

Auguste Renoir

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