Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party
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Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party Details
About the Author Eliza Rathbone is chief curator emerita at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. she was assistant curator, Twentieth-Century Art, National Gallery of Art, 1979-1985 and associate curator, curator of Twentieth-Century Art, and chief curator, the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 1985-2014.Mary Morton is curator and head of the French paintings department at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. She received her PhD from Brown University, concentrating on 19th and early 20th century European painting. Dr. Morton spent five years as associate curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.Sylvie Patry is deputy director for Collections & Exhibitions and Gund Family Chief Curator, Barnes Foundation.Aileen Ribeiro was Head of the History of Dress Department at the Courtauld Institute from 1975 to 2009; appointed Professor in the History of Art at the University of London in 2000, she is now Professor Emeritus. She lectures widely in Great Britain, Europe and North America, and has acted as costume consultant/contributor to many major exhibitions of art.Elizabeth Steele is head of conservation at the Phillips Collection.Sara Tas is a curator at the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam. Read more
Reviews
This book accompanied the Renoir show in Washington in 2017. Prior to this, I read the wonderful novel Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland, which I wholeheartedly recommend. I had hoped this book would explain the lives of Alphonsine, Alphonse, Ellen Terry, Jeanne Samary, and others in the painting, but it did not. There were quite a few pages about the Xray pictures of the drawings over Renoir's paintings, which I found uninteresting. BTW, the biography of Renoir by Barbara Ehrlich White was unfortunately dry, consisting mostly of paraphrases of his letters from the age of 45 on. I was mostly interested in his younger years, the lovers, the early (and more magical) paintings. But only 20% of the book wes on this 60% of his life. Hopefully, I will live long enough to read his (and Manet's, Sisley, Cezanne, Monet, etc.) full life.