Product Description: Alongside Monet, Bazille and Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir laid the foundations of Impressionism in 1860s Paris. But acclaim for his painting was slow in coming, primarily because of the tribulations of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, which put a hiatus on so much artistic activity during the 1860s-70s...read more

Product Description: Here at last is a publication devoted to the glorious final three decades of Pierre-Auguste Renoir-the decades in which the painter turned away from Impressionism and toward a more decorative approach informed by his own idiosyncratic interpretation of art history...read more

Briefly discusses the life and art of the French impressionist and provides commentary on some of his major works.

Discusses the life and work of the French Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Focusing on Renoir's 'Moulin de la Galette', discusses his major paintings and his part in the Impressionist movement, paying attention to his early training and influences as well as to his later aigre, nacrâee, and Cagnes periods.

Product Description: Renoir's La Promenade is one of the most engaging and approachable of all Impressionist paintings. This study of the work--a masterpiece from the Getty collection--reveals surprising details about the sexual, historical, and artistic contexts in which the painting was created. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This superb collection of lithographs reveals the great Impressionist’s subtle mastery of mood, composition and shading even without the presence of the rich palette of colors usually associated with his work. Scenes of children playing, mothers with children, women posing and working, and portraits of the artist’s children are interspersed with portraits of famous men, among them Paul Cézanne, Auguste Rodin, Richard Wagner and Ambroise Vollard...read more

Lavishly illustrated study of the stunning Impressionist painter depicts his life and art through voluminous reproductions and the writings of his contemporaries and friends including Zola, Van Gogh, Cassatt, Pissaro, De Chirico, Henry Moore, Jean Renoir (his son), and others. 124 full-color and 116 black-and-white illustrations. (view table of contents)