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The Boating Party
Exciting information and analysis of one of the greatest paintings of all time. Many fabulous color close ups of different parts of thework, with lots of exciting insights.Also describes all the people in the painitng. One of the prized books in our collection. A real find. Great reference. ... Read more

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Chapters: Jean Renoir. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jean Renoir (French pronunciation: ; 15 September 1894 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. As an author, he wrote the definitive biography of his father, Renoir, My Father (1962). The young Renoir with Gabrielle Renard in a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.Renoir was born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France. He was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He was also the brother of Pierre Renoir, a noted French stage and film actor; the uncle of Claude Renoir, a cinematographer; and the father of Alain Renoir, late professor emeritus of comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley. When Jean Renoir was a child, he moved with his family to the south of France. He and the rest of the Renoir family were the subjects of many of his father's paintings. His father's financial success ensured that the young Renoir was educated at fashionable boarding schools which, as he later wrote, he was continually running away from. At the outbreak of World War I Renoir was serving in the French cavalry. Later, after receiving a bullet in his leg, he served as a reconnaissance pilot. His leg injury left him with a permanent limp, but allowed him to discover the cinema, where he used to recuperate with his leg elevated while watching the films of Charlie Chaplin and others. After the war, Renoir followed his father's suggestion and tried his hand at making ceramics, but he soon set that aside in order to make films, inspired, in particular, by Erich von Stroheim's work. In 1924, Renoir di...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=105329 ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Caspar David Friedrich, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, Gisela Andersch, Thomas Gainsborough, William Berczy, Jean Lecomte du Noüy, Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, John Vanderlyn, Frans Luycx, Joseph Oppenheimer, Johann Baptist Joseph Bastiné, Ralph Earl, Günter Rittner, Josef Moroder-Lusenberg, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Friedrich von Amerling, Susanne von Nathusius, Corneliu Baba, Johann Balthasar Bullinger, Helmut Lewin, Heinrich Franz Carl Billotte, Johann Rudolf Huber, William Orpen, Washington Allston, Ferdinand von Harrach, Josef Arpád Koppay, Karl Wilhelm Bauerle, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Hans Mielich, Cesare Dell'Acqua, Wilhelm August Rieder, Felix Maria Diogg, Vincenzo Catena, Georg Albert Dorschfeldt, Hans Perathoner, Joseph Karl Stieler, Ferdinand Andri, George Harcourt, Franz Krüger, Wladimir Lukitsch Borowikowski, Scheubel, Johann Baptist von Lampi, Andrea Alovisii, Richard Gerstl, Kurt Weiss, Jakob Christian Schlotterbeck, Alex Katz, Gustav Graef, Pawel Dmitrijewitsch Korin, Walentin Alexandrowitsch Serow, Heinz Friedrich, Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, Gilbert Stuart, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Don Bachardy, Eugene Spiro, Josef Maria Auchentaller, Lemuel Francis Abbott, Max Oppenheimer, Catarina van Hemessen, František Tkadlík, Porträtmalerei, Jakob Becker, Friedrich Thomas, Gerlach Flicke, Arthur Illies, Nikolaus Lauer, Edmund Kalb, Franz Eybl, Estêvão Silva, Alice Neel, Ferdinand Schmutzer, Niels Brodersen, Joseph Vivien, Pietro Benvenuti, Egidius Mengelberg, Kurt Schulzke, Josef Dobrowsky, Jeremias Falck, Alexei Gawrilowitsch Wenezianow, Wassili Andrejewitsch Tropinin, Ludwig Passini, Guillaume Voiriot, Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp, Hans-Josef Becker-Leber, Karl Friedrich Gsur, Vlaho Buk...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=11256 ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Max Liebermann, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Anna Ancher, Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Joseph Oppenheimer, Max Slevogt, Adolf Bender, Henri Rousseau, Walter Gay, Matthijs Maris, Oskar Obier, Otto von Faber du Faur, Ludwig von Gleichen-Rußwurm, Alfred Sisley, Liste der Maler des Impressionismus, Jan Toorop, Andrés de Santa Maria, Thomas Cooper Gotch, Franz Skarbina, John Peter Russell, Mansel Lewis, Rudolf Schramm-Zittau, Carl Bantzer, Wilhelm Trübner, William York MacGregor, Eva Gonzalès, Henry Herbert La Thangue, Gustave Caillebotte, Thomas Millie Dow, Elizabeth Adela Forbes, Glasgow School, Albert Chevallier Tayler, Alfred Knispel, Armand Guillaumin, Mary Cassatt, Eugene Spiro, Arthur Siebelist, Ştefan Luchian, Dora Hitz, Ignacio Pinazo, Alfred Macalik, Stanhope Forbes, Jacob Maris, Auguste Herbin, Edward Arthur Walton, Willem Maris, James Guthrie, James Paterson, Frank Bramley, Pierre-Ernest Prins, Ilse von Heyden-Linden, Alexander Mann, Vlaho Bukovac, Charles Napier Hemy, Ernst Eitner, Francisco Domingo, Theodor von Hörmann, Walter Langley, Eugène Boudin, Leonid Ossipowitsch Pasternak, Norman Garstin, Joseph Crawhall, Theodor Philipsen, Henri Martin, Arthur Ernest Streeton, Hermann Pleuer, Hermann Baisch, Samuel John Birch, Edwin Harris, Thomas Corsan Morton, Thomas Herbst, László Paál, Ignacio Zuloaga, Alexandre Perrier, Antoine Guillemet, Otto Pippel, Marie Bracquemond, Carl Oesterley junior, Henry Meynell Rheam, William Ayerst Ingram, Arthur Segal, Rudolf Kremlička, Dietz Edzard, Max Lange, Julian Fałat, Martin Brandenburg, Ralph Todd, George Hunter, Rudolf Quittner, Henri Julien Dumont, John Duncan Fergusson, Michael Ancher, Percy Rober...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=11018 ... Read more

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The ten color plates in this portfolio are the product of the world's finest craftsmen. They have been printed with consummate care to preserve the greatest possible fidelity to the original paintings. . . Each of the reproductions is hand-tipped and may easily be removed from the book for framing. The authoritative texts, and the commentaries opposite each painting, are designed to increase your understanding and enjoyment of these great works. ... Read more

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Beautiful Art Work
This is a beautiful book, but that's what you expect with an art inspired coffee table book. The writing is done so that the casual observer of impressionist art can come away with a better understanding of the subject matter.Every time I look through this book I come away pleases but that is more a function of the artwork documented then the authors work. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841 ? December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau". Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, the child of a working class family. ... Read more