Renoir: Colour Library

by William Gaunt and Auguste Renoir

Book Overview

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was one of the founders of Impressionism and a friend of Monet, Pissarro and Sisley. He worked side-by-side with Monet on the banks of the Seine, sharing his concern with light and colour, but landscape painting never displaced his enduring love of figure painting. A natural heir to the delicacy of Boucher, Watteau and Fragonard. Delighting in the ample curves of the nudes he painted increasingly frequently in his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714827568
• ISBN13: 9780714827568
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.9" x 11.9"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary