Renoir, My Father
Renoir, My Father (French: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, mon père) is a 1962 biography about the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, written by his son Jean Renoir. It describes the 19th-century Paris in which Renoir and the Impressionist painters emerged, covers Renoir's career developments, and portrays his character and thoughts, based on Jean Renoir's memories of him.[1]
Heavy on anecdotes rather than meticulous research, Raymond Durgnat called the book Boswellian, which means it is "an inspired reportage tracing a sensibility throughout dimensions which the work reveals without defining".[2]
The book received the Charles-Blanc Prize from the Académie Française.[3]
References
- ^ "Renoir, My Father". Kirkus Reviews. 1 November 1962. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ^ Durgnat, Raymond (2023). "59. Renoir Mon Père (Renoir My Father)". Jean Renoir. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 368–372. doi:10.1525/9780520332669-059.
- ^ "Prix Charles Blanc" (in French). Académie Française. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
Further reading
- White, Barbara Ehrlich (8 March 2018). "My Renoir". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 27 April 2025.