Renoir

by Confidential Concepts

New Line Books, Confidential, Concepts

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

80 pages, Hardcover

First published January 5, 2005

Reviews

[Adia · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Constant excitement speeds Renoir's gait, bends and straightens his back, forces his deformed fingers to move, renders nervous the constant motion of his lean body, on which his fluttering clothing hangs in folds...his face is furrowed, etched with wrinkles, drawn, wizened, rough with grey bristles. It has protruding cheekbones and glittering eyes that contain a glow, and a tenderness at the same time. His agile fingers are constantly plucking and smoothing his grey mustache and beard...he paces back and forth. He sits down, gets up and, having just got up, decides to sit down again, to get up again...he makes up for that silence by his rapid speech—he always finds a way to talk with renewed passion about the art of painting...
-Thadee Natanson on Renoir

the book often referenced paintings without giving the page numbers on which to find them, which was frustrating. a decent introduction to Renoir's work otherwise.

[Eden · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars

Perfect Squares book Renoir is a hard-cover book on Impressionist painter, Pierre-August Renoir – one of my favourite painters of all times.

This book includes all the relevant history of Renoir’s life as well as some of his best and better-known paintings in high quality print. It will certainly enrich anyone’s library.

I am sure fans of Renoir will enjoy this book.

[Helena · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really good book about Renoir life and work with a lot of paintings explained