Jean Renoir RENOIR, MY FATHER 1st edition 1958

Description: This is a rare and valuable first edition book titled "Jean Renoir RENOIR, MY FATHER" printed in 1958 by Little Brown and Company. The book is a hardcover with English language and special attributes that make it a collector's item for art history and criticism enthusiasts. The author, Renoir, is well-known for his outstanding contribution to art and this book is a testament to his legacy. not This is a must-have for any serious book collector or art lover. About the Author: 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 his first film, La Fille de l’eau, in 1925 and followed it with many others, including his masterpieces Grand Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939). In 1975 Jean Renoir received an Academy Award for his lifetime contribution to the cinema. *All purchases are charitable donations, and can be used, as such, as tax exemptions, within the United States of America. Luminary Earth Angels Soulstinace Sanctuary. A Private Membership Association (PMA) Used condition 1st edition 1958 textured silver boards with a maroon and gold front cover rectangular decoration enclosing gold front cover lettering and gold spine lettering, contained in a very good condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Preliminary Page Note; List of Illustrations; and Index. Illustrated with 4 sections of black-and-white photographic plates and portraits, illustrated front and rear endpapers and a color Renoir self-portrait frontispiece. . All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine is in exceedingly tight and square unread condition. (see photographs). "Renoir, My Father is a biography and personal reminiscence of the great master of Impressionism written by the artist's son Jean Renoir. Drawing upon a wealth of observation and information, Jean Renoir, himself a distinguished film producer, brings his father to radiant life as he recreates the Paris of the Impressionists in which Renoir lived and makes him understandable as an artist and as a man. Perhaps the most popular French painter in America today, Pierre Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges in 1841, the son of a poor tailor, but he soon moved to Paris and always considered himself a true Parisian. When he was thirteen he had a chance for a career in music, offered by the still unknown Charles Gournod, but Renoir turned it down for an apprenticeship as a porcelain painter. It was not until he was twenty that Renoir resolved to become a professional artist and began his formal studies at Gleyre's atelier. With warmth, humor, love and compassion, and against the intimate background of family and friends, Jean Renoir tells of his father's fight for his revolutionary art and reveals for the first time the magnitude of his battle against a crippling disease. Although his paintings, like those of his friends, Monet, Sisley, Cezanne, Possaro, Berthe Morisot and Manet, were vilified in reviews and were laughed at by the public, Renoir willingly gave up everything for his art. When in 1881 he fell in love with Aline Charigot, a seamstress of nineteen, he hesitated to marry since he could not provide for her and the children he felt essential to a good marriage. To ponder this problem and the equally serious one for him of his growing doubts of Impressionism, Renoir went on a series of trips through France, to Italy and Algiers. Upon his return he married Aline and began to enjoy some financial security. In 1897 after years of recognition, ease and enjoyment of life, Renoir suffered an accident that left him the victim of a progressive paralysis which finally confined him to a wheel chair. Despite this bitter handicap and despite the crippling of his hands, Renoir continued to paint daily and to experiment with styles and the use of colors until his death in 1919. Jean Renoir communicates simply and movingly his abiding love and admiration for his father and has filled his book with a rich variety of anecdotes of Renoir and the world in which he lived. He relates stories of the lives that touched his father's, includes vignettes of some of France's immortals, describes his father's painting methods, and quotes Renoir as philosopher and commentator on his times. Renoir, My Father is a rewarding, illuminating and endlessly fascinating work, superbly enhanced by a profusion of personal illustrations, many never before seen. Throughout, Jean Renoir suffuses his pages with that peculiar light and color with which his father filled his canvases - the light and color of joy and of humanity.” *All purchases are charitable donations, and can be used, as such, as tax exemptions, within the United States of America. Luminary Earth Angels Soulstinace Sanctuary A Private Membership Association (PMA)

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