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  Luncheon of the Boating Party

  by Susan Vreeland

  Bestselling author Susan Vreeland returns with a vivid exploration of one of the most beloved Renoir paintings in the world Instantly recognizable, Auguste Renoir’s masterpiece depicts a gathering of his real friends enjoying a summer Sunday on a café terrace along the Seine near Paris. A wealthy painter, an art collector, an Italian journalist, a war hero, a celebrated actress, and Renoir’s future... (more)
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  The Impressionists Handbook: The Great Works and the World That Inspired Them

  by Robert Katz, Dars Celestine

  This is the story of those revolutionary painters and the dramatic times that shaped their vision, complete with more than 160 color reproductions of their greatest masterpieces, from Manet’s Olympia to Renoir’s The Path in the Grass. The first half of the volume recounts the history of the movement, while the second section focuses on the lives and works of the most significant individual artists.
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  Luncheon of the Boating Party [LUNCHEON OF THE BOATING PA]

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  The Judgment of Paris

  The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism

  by Ross King

  While the Civil War raged in America, another revolution took shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. Indeed, no artistic movement has ever been quite so controversial. The drama of its birth, played out on canvas and against... (more)
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  Renoir, My Father

  by Jean Renoir

  Film director Jean Renoir was the son of the great impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In this delightful memoir, he tells the story of his famous father, capturing the artist's unpretentious and engaging personality. The author describes his father's early years as a painter of fans and porcelain, evolving thoughts about the effect of light on paintings, and relationships with such luminaries as Monet... (more)
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  Renoir (Pocket LIbrary of Great Art #A11)

  by Milton Fox

• Great Biographies, George Washington, Joan of Arc, Renoir, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning (Great Biographies)

  

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  Great Biographies, George Washington, Joan of Arc, Renoir, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning (Great Biographies)

  A Reader's Digest: Great Biographies book. The four biographies tell us the amazing life stories of George Washington, Joan of Arc, Renoir, and Elizabeth and Robert Browning
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  Renoir: A Master of Impressionism (The Impressionists)

  by Gerhard Gruitrooy

  120+ color photos. 9 1/4 x 12 3/4.
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  Auguste Renoir, 1841-1919, the Painter of Happiness

  by Gilles Neret

  La vie en rose. The world's happiest paintings. Auguste Renoir's timelessly charming paintings are the embodiment of happiness, love, and beauty. TASCHEN's Renoir, the most complete retrospective book of this painter's work, examines in detail the history and motivation behind the legend. Though he began his career painting landscapes in the impressionist style, Renoir (1841-1919) found his true affinity only... (more)
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  Jean Renoir

  Projections of Paradise

  by Ronald Bergan

  So many pyramids of acclaim have been built around Jean Renoir, director of Grand Illusion , The Rules of the Game , and The River , that the man and his films often seem removed and sterile. But Renoir was a real entertainer as well as a major filmmaker; poignancy and comedy were of equal importance to him. Throwing off the shackles of austerity, Ronald Bergen has written an intimate biography of the... (more)
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  Renoir: His Life and Works

  by Francesca Castellani

  Featuring more that 250 color reproductions, this comprehensive edition explores Renoir's formative years, his artistic evolution among the Impressionist painters of the Parisian art world, and the fame he enjoyed before his death in 1919. Includes extensive critical text and captions.
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  Renoir

  by Anne Distel

  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... (more)
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  Sacre Bleu

  A Comedy of Art

  by Christopher Moore

  In July 1890, Vincent van Gogh went into a cornfield and shot himself. Or did he? Why would an artist at the height of his creative powers attempt to take his own life . . . and then walk a mile to a doctor's house for help? Who was the crooked little "color man" Vincent had claimed was stalking him across France? And why had the painter recently become deathly afraid of a certain shade of blue?These are... (more)