Renoir Drawings
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Author: Renior, Pierre-Auguste
This lavish volume features more than 110 drawings, pastels, watercolours, prints and a small selection of paintings, enabling readers to engage with Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s creative process while offering crucial insights into his artistic methods over five decades. Thematic sections cover the full span of the artist’s career, exploring the ways in which Renoir used paper to test ideas, plan compositions and interpret both landscape and the human figure.Ranging from academic studies he made as a student, to on-the-spot impressions of contemporary urban and rural life, to finished, formal portraits, to intimate sketches of friends and family completed late in life. In-depth case studies of favoured themes and preparatory work for landmark canvases further illuminate Renoir’s drawing practice.The paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir have become icons of Impressionism. Although his works on paper are less widely known, drawing remained central to his artistic practice even as his interests and ambitions changed over the course of a long career.Together with Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was a founder of the style that became known as Impressionism, and one of its most prolific exponents. He was described by Herbert Read as “the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau.”
ISBN 9781636811840. DelMonico Books. hb. 224 pages. 176 colour, 5 b/w ills. 28 x 21 cm.
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This lavish volume features more than 110 drawings, pastels, watercolours, prints and a small selection of paintings, enabling readers to engage with Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s creative process while offering crucial insights into his artistic methods over five decades. Thematic sections cover the full span of the artist’s career, exploring the ways in which Renoir used paper to test ideas, plan compositions and interpret both landscape and the human figure.Ranging from academic studies he made as a student, to on-the-spot impressions of contemporary urban and rural life, to finished, formal portraits, to intimate sketches of friends and family completed late in life. In-depth case studies of favoured themes and preparatory work for landmark canvases further illuminate Renoir’s drawing practice.The paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir have become icons of Impressionism. Although his works on paper are less widely known, drawing remained central to his artistic practice even as his interests and ambitions changed over the course of a long career.Together with Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was a founder of the style that became known as Impressionism, and one of its most prolific exponents. He was described by Herbert Read as “the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau.”
ISBN 9781636811840. DelMonico Books. hb. 224 pages. 176 colour, 5 b/w ills. 28 x 21 cm.
available