Renoir [antikvár]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am very grateful to those friends and colleagues who have given me suggestions and advice in compiling the texts: to Martha Kapos, Jasia Reichardt, Stefan Themerson, David Thompson, Gerard Wilson, Christopher Yetton and particularly to Steven Bury, senior librarian at Chelsea School of Art, London, for his unfailing and freely-given help; to Paula Clifford and, especially, Judith Landry for all their work on the translations, as well as to Barbara Wright, Blanche Bronstein and Anita Seal for their guidance; finally, to Elisabeth Ingles, Susan Dixon, Annabel Hood and Robert Updegraff for their editorial, research and design skills in putting the book together with me. As far as the sources are concerned, I and the publishers are grateful to all those publishers and authors who have given permission for their texts and translations to be reprinted here and to all those museums and private collectors who have allowed works to be reproduced. I am particularly indebted to the research in two recent publications: Barbara E. White's Renoir, his Life, Art and Letters (Abrams, New York, 1984 and Flammarion, Paris, 1985) and Renoir, the exhibition catalog by John House and his colleagues (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985). Like all writers on Impressionist painting, I also owe an important debt to John Rewald for his founding work on the subject. nicholas wadley