Renoir, My Father
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AuthorJean Renoir
OriginaltitlePierre-Auguste Renoir, mon père
LanguageFrench
SubjectPierre-Auguste Renoir
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| Author | Jean Renoir |
|---|---|
| Original title | Pierre-Auguste Renoir, mon père |
| Language | French |
| Subject | Pierre-Auguste Renoir |
| Genre | biography |
| Publisher | Hachette |
Publication date | 1962 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 5 November 1962 |
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]
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