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Renoir: An Intimate Biography by Barbara Ehrlich White
Catherine Southwick book review of Renoir: An Intimate Biography by Barbara Ehrlich White Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 17, no. 1 (Spring 2018) Citation: Catherine Southwick, book review of “Renoir: An Intimate Biography by Barbara Ehrlich White,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 17, no. 1 (Spring 2018), https://doi.org/ 10.29411/ncaw.2018.17.1.7. Published by: Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art Notes: This PDF is provided for reference purposes only and may not contain all the functionality or features of the original, online publication. License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License Creative Commons License. Southwick: Renoir: An Intimate Biography by Barbara Ehrlich White Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 17, no. 1 (Spring 2018) Barbara Ehrlich White, Renoir: An Intimate Biography. New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2017. 432 pp.; 58 color and 47 b&w illus.; notes; bibliography; index. $39.95 ISBN: 9780500239575 Barbara Ehrlich White’s newest publication on Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) is the culmination of a career of scholarly work on the artist, and, most notably, an intense study of Renoir’s letters and those of his friends, family
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Barbara Ehrlich White,
Renoir: An Intimate Biography.
New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2017.
432 pp.; 58 color and 47 b&w illus.; notes; bibliography; index.
$39.95
ISBN: 9780500239575
Barbara Ehrlich White’s newest publication on Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) is the culmination of a career of scholarly work on the artist, and, most notably, an intense study of Renoir’s letters and those of his friends, family, and associates. Renoir: An Intimate Biography is a companion to, and a revision of, White’s Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters (1984, reprinted 2010). The earlier volume reflected on 1,000 letters concerning the artist, and in the intervening years White has discovered and consulted an additional 2,000 relevant letters. The 1984 publication, illustrated on nearly every page, gives greater attention to Renoir’s paintings and quotes more liberally from his letters. Renoir: An Intimate Biography has the feel of a historical novel—even in its physical appearance, which is handheld compared to the exhibition catalogue size of the 1984 volume. White uses the new letters as source material to reconsider Renoir’s history, excerpting the correspondence throughout the book but not regularly reproducing it in full. The book is divided into seven chapters, each covering
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