Renoir, My Father
(Paperback, Main)
Publishing Details
Renoir, My Father
By (Author) Dorothy Weaver
By (author) Jean Renoir
By (author) Randolph Weaver
By (author) Robert L. Herbert
The New York Review of Books, Inc
NYRB Classics
15th September 2006
30th September 2001
Main
United States
Classifications
Children
Non Fiction
Biography: general
Paintings and painting
Individual artists, art monographs
759.4
Physical Properties
Paperback
456
Width 125mm, Height 200mm, Spine 30mm
495g
Description
In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, beginning as a painter of fans and porcelain, recording the rules of thumb by which he worked, and capturing his unpretentious and wonderfully engaging talk and personality, Jean Renoir's book is both a wonderful double portrait of father and son and the best book that has been written about Renoir and his paintings.
Author Bio
Jean Renoir (1894-1979), the son of the painter Auguste Renoir, was born in Paris, grew up in the south of France, and served as a cavalryman and pilot during World War I. He directed many films, including his masterpieces Grand Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939), and in 1975 received an Academy Award for his lifetime contribution to the cinema.
