![]() ![]() By the time he was twenty, Renoir had dedicated himself to art - taking lessons at the Atelier Gleyre and sharing lodgings with Monet - having turned down composer Gounod's offer of a musical education (he had a fine baritone voice), and having spent several years as an apprentice porcelain painter. Based on conversations which the author had with his father during the year or so before his death in 1919 the book describes and quotes with characteristic gusto the artist's day-to-day thoughts, feelings and reactions, at the same time giving the political and artistic background of nineteenth century Paris against which Renoir and his fellow Impressionists struggled for recognition. ![]() ![]() This is an immensely readable biography of Pierre Auguste Renoir by his film producer son. ![]()
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