Renoir: The Essential Paintings

Renoir: The Essential Paintings - Hardcover

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Renoir: The Essential Paintings - Hardcover

Renoir: The Essential Paintings - Hardcover

by Valérie Mettais
$45.00
$45.00

Book Overview

by Valérie Mettais (Author)

This sumptuous boxed set traces the development of Renoir's painting across subjects, periods, and scale.

One of the central figures of French Impressionism, Pierre-Auguste Renoir helped redefine modern painting through his sustained attention to light, the human figure, and the textures of everyday life. Spanning the full course of his career, this distinctive edition brings together a wide selection of Renoir's most significant paintings in a format that encourages extended looking and visual comparison.
The main book has an accordion-fold structure, which allows works from different moments and involving diverse subjects to be seen together, revealing continuities as well as shifts in approach. The selection moves fluidly from scenes of modern leisure and social exchange--among them Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, Luncheon of the Boating Party, and Dance at Bougival--to portraits and landscapes such as Two Sisters (On the Terrace) and A Road in Louveciennes.
Housed in a slipcase, the main hardback volume contains finely reproduced color plates and is accompanied by a separate booklet providing specifications and concise annotations for each work, situating the paintings historically and thematically.
Designed for museum visitors and collectors, this lavish set of books offers a focused encounter with an artist who helped shape the visual language of modern life.

Author Biography

VALERIE METTAIS is the author of several works on painting and artists' writings, including Klimt: The Essential Paintings, Van Gogh: The Essential
Paintings, and Turner: The Essential Paintings, all published by Prestel.

Number of Pages: 240
Dimensions: 1.82 x 10.17 x 7.18 IN
Publication Date: September 08, 2026
ISBN9783819500008
Author Valérie Mettais
PublisherPrestel Publishing
GenreArts and History
FormatHardcover
PublishedSeptember 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages240
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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