Description

On this pleasant memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Regulations of the Game, tells the existence tale of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the good Impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste’s peculiar profession, starting as a painter of fanatics and porcelain, recording the principles of thumb during which he labored, and shooting his unpretentious and fantastically attractive communicate and persona, Jean Renoir’s ebook is each a gorgeous double portrait of pop and son and, within the phrases of the prestigious artwork historian John Golding, it “is still the most efficient account of Renoir, and, moreover, a number of the such a lot gorgeous and transferring biographies we now have.”

Comprises 12 pages of colour plates and 18 pages of black and white photographs.