Alberto Martini Libri

Sun-kissed, charming, and sensual, the work of Pierre-Auguste Renoir champions painting at its most lighthearted and luminous. This essential artist introduction selects key works from his extensive oeuvre to explore his Impressionist innovations as much as his traditions in pursuit of beauty, harmony, and the female form.

A brief biography of the nineteenthcentury Dutch Impressionist painter accompanies fifty-nine annotated color plates of his works

Paintings by the French Impressionist illustrate his fascination with the form and sensuousness of the female body as well as his use of luscious and harmonious colors