Research Catalog

Title

Renoir : intimacy / Guillermo Solana ; with texts by Colin B. Bailey, Flavie Durand-Ruel Mouraux ; translator, Jenny Dodman.

Author

Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919

Publication

• Madrid : Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Solana, Guillermo
• Bailey, Colin B.
• Durand-Ruel, Flavie
• Dodman, Jenny
• Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza host institution.
• Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao host institution.

Description

197 pages : illustrations (mostly color), portraits; 28 cm

Summary

"The filmmaker Jean Renoir described how his father 'looked at flowers, women and clouds in the sky as other men touch and caress.' In contrast to the habitual conception of Impressionism, which reduces it to "the purely visual", this book, as the exhibition it accompanies, singles out the central role of tactile sensations in Pierre-Auguste Renoir's canvases, which are evident in all the different phases of his career and which he expressed in a wide range of genres, including group scenes, portraits and nudes, as well as still lifes and landscapes. This publication comprising more than 70 works by the artist, from museums and collections world-wide, reveals the way Renoir made use of the tactile qualities of volume, material and textures as a vehicle to depict intimacy in its different forms (social intimacy, among friends and family, or erotic) and how that imagery connects the work and the viewer to the sensuality of the brushstroke and the pictorial surface"--

Alternative Title

Intimacy

Subject

• Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919 > Exhibitions
• Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, October 18, 2016 - January 22, 2017 and Museo de Bellas Artes de Bildao, February 7, 2017 - May 15, 2017.
• Issued also in Spanish with title: Renoir : intimidad.
• Spanish bound ed. also avail. (see our card no. 3165067, EAN 9788415113874); Spanish paperback ed. also avail. (see our card no. 3165070, EAN 9788415113867).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Renoir : intimacy / Guillermo Solana -- Themes and variations : Renoir's sensuality / Colin B. Bailey -- Renoir and Durand-Ruel / Flavie Durand-Ruel Mouraux -- Catalogue -- Renoir : a biography / Paula Luengo.

ISBN

• 9788415113898
• 8415113897
• 9788415113881
• 8415113889

OCLC

961107556

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library