In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, beginning as a painter of fans and porcelain, recording the rules of thumb by which he worked, and capturing his unpretentious and wonderfully engaging talk and personality, Jean Renoir's book is both a wonderful double portrait of father and son and, in the words of the distinguished art historian John Golding, it "remains the best account of Renoir, and, furthermore, among the most beautiful and moving biographies we have." Includes 12 pages of color plates and 18 pages of black and white images.

Renoir, My Father.

Arts & Photography

Jean Renoir

Individual Artists

Little Brown & Co (Pap)

Jean Renoir (1894-1979) was hailed as the greatest of film directors by no less than Orson Welles and Charles Chaplin. The son of the celebrated impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, he made such classics of French cinema as Boudu Saved From Drowning, La Grande Illusion and La Regle du Jeu - voted by critics in Sight and Sound as one of the ten best films of all time.The letters in this volume, many published here for the first time, span Renoir's entire life, revealing a man of unparalleled humanity and artistic commitment. They cast new light on his creative struggles, both in France and Hollywood, and provide a record of his friendships with such people as the writers Georges Simenon, Dudley Nichols and Clifford Odets, the actresses Ingrid Bergman and Leslie Caron and the directors Erich von Stroheim and Francois Truffaut.

Letters

Humor & Entertainment

DAVID THOMPSON

Lorraine LoBianco

Movies

Faber&Faber

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mon Pere (French Edition)

French & European Pubns

UNREAD, clean, tight, copy. Tight, uncreased spine. Square clean edges and corners in very good wrappers. Very faint 1" ghost sticker inside cover.

Rules of the Game

Mein Leben und meine Filme. Autobiographie.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Diogenes-Verlag

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