Renoir

Author(s): Peter H. Feist

Fine Art

La belle vie: Impressionism's most joyful paintings Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is now universally acclaimed: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flock to his retrospectives. His work shows art at its most light-hearted, sensual and luminous. Renoir never wanted anything ugly in his paintings, nor any dramatic action. "I like pictures which make me want to wander through them when it's a landscape," he said, "or pass my hand over breast or back if it's a woman."

Renoir's entire oeuvre is dominated by the depiction of women. Again and again he painted "these faunesses with their pouting lips" (Mallarme) and invented a new image of feminity. About the Series:
Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features:



  • a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance

  • a concise biography

  • approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

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General Fields

  • : 9783836531092
  • : taschen
  • : taschen
  • : 0.57
  • : October 2016
  • : 1.2 Centimeters X 21.4 Centimeters X 26.3 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Peter H. Feist
  • : Other book format