Hardcover
2012 · New York
by Bailey, Colin B.
New York: The Frick Collection, 2012. Hardcover. VG/VG. Navy blue boards with light blue spine lettering, navy blue & illustrated dust jacket, 266 pp., profusely illustrated in color and bw. "Offers fresh insights into the complex ambitions" of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), "when he submitted works to both the avant-garde Impressionist exhibitions and the official Salon." Uses 10 "iconic canvases" as examples: The Dancer, La Parisienne, Madame Henriot "en travesti" (The Page), La Promenade, Jeanne Samary, Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg), The Umbrellas (Les Parapluies), Dance in the City, Dance in the Country, and Dane at Bougival. (Inventory #: 136291)