Renoir - His Life, Art, and Letters [antikvár]

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“During the seventy-eight years of his life, Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted thousands of paintings and made uncounted drawings, watercolors, and sketches. Behind this prodigious output, rivaling even Picasso’s, is a lifetime of struggle and anguish seldom hinted at in the work of this ‘happy painter.’ His efforts to find a new art to match his vision of a world created by light and warmth are vividly and intimately chronicled here through his letters and those of his friends and patrons. A comrade-in-arms of the other young artists who later became famous as the Impressionists, Renoir fought the entrenched establishment of the annual Salons, with their dead weight of academic allegories and histories. He brought contemporary Paris life in its leisure hours to his canvases, and opened up painting to a new world of art lovers.” (from front flap) This impressive and comprehensive production navigates the periods in the life of French impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) and identifies the correlation between life events and artistic style shifts. As he moved through the world and met new people, his artistic expression was affected by who was there, where he was, and what was happening. Barbara Ehrlich White (b. 1936) analyzes the developments in Renoir’s life and mindset by evaluating his works in connection to letters and documentation that connect him to the likes of Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Auguste Rodin, and Henri Matisse. His rise to prominence in the fine art circles of nineteenth century France began with his first Salon acceptance in 1864, at the age of only 23. The influence from other artists and the reasons that he experimented with different styles are pinpointed here by White along the timeline of his growth and development. An all-encompassing narrative biography, Renoir answers any and all questions readers may have about the incomparable impressionist. F