Renoir in the 20th century / with essays by Roger Benjamin, Guy Cogeval, Claudia Einecke ... [et al. ; catalogue coordinated by Claudia Einecke and Sylvie Patry].
Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Renoir au XXe siècle" held at Galeries Nationales (Grand Palais, Champs-Élysées), Paris, Sept. 23, 2009-Jan. 4, 2010; "Renoir in the 20th century" held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 14-May 9, 2010; and "Late Renoir" held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pa., June 17-Sept. 6, 2010. Includes bibliographical references (p. 422-430) and indexes.
Contents:
Renoir and the art of the past / John House -- Renoir and decorative art: "a pleasure without compare" / Sylvie Patry -- Dress-up and costuming: Verfremdung in Renoir's late paintings / Claudia Einecke -- Renoir the sculptor? / Emmanuelle Héran -- "A painter who has never learned to draw but who draws well-that is Renoir" / Isabelle Gaëtan -- Renoir at Cagnes / Virginie Journiac -- Renoir and his early twentieth-century patrons / Monique Nonne -- Late Renoir in the collections of Albert C. Barnes and Leo Stein / Martha Lucy -- Picasso 1917 to 1924: a "Renoirian" crisis / Laurence Madeline -- Why did Matisse love late Renoir? / Roger Benjamin -- Renoir and the Nabis / Sylvie Patry -- Renoir and Maillol / Emmanuelle Héran -- Catalogue of exhibited works -- Renoir in his time -- "One must do the painting of one's time" / Sylvie Patry -- Chronology / Isabelle Gaëtan and Monique Nonne -- Renoir: a photographic record / Isabelle Gaëtan.
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