Renoir: An Intimate Biography

Renoir: An Intimate BiographyThe joy that permeates Renoir's paintings was created by a complicated person. Even close friends and family members were often baffled by the multi faceted and contradictory artist. Having known Renoir for over twenty years, Camille Pissarro complained in a letter to his son Lucien: `Nor can I understand Renoir's mind but who can fathom the most changeable of men?' Here, the world's leading authority on the life and work of Auguste Renoir presents an

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