Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is universally acclaimed and celebrated: 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 feminine beauty and sensuality. A prolific painter—he made several thousand works in his lifetime—he is perhaps the most beloved of the Impressionists. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге * kr-25 Renoir / Ренуар (Peter H. Feist)