During the seventy-eight years of his life, Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted thousands of paintings and made uncounted drawings, watercolors, and sketches. Behind this prodigious output is a lifetime of struggle and anguish seldom hinted at in the work of this "happy painter." Barbara Ehrlich White has devoted more than twenty years to searching out unpublished letters and documents that reveal his life as an artist and as a man. She brilliantly contrasts...

Presents interpretive essays of the Impressionist movement and Impressionist artists.