Renoir: Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting

New York and New Haven, CT: Frick Collection; Yale University Press, 2012. Cloth, xi, 266 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Frick Collection, New York, February 7 to May 13, 2012. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting is a full-length scholarly catalogue that accompanies an exhibition of the same title curated by Colin B. Bailey. The exhibition catalogue will provide a new conceptual and contextual framework for approaching Renoir's oeuvre in the first decade of the Impressionist movement. The catalogue will include extensive entries on each of the ten works in the exhibition, as well as an introductory essay on Renoir's relationship to the full-length format. An appendix of Renoir's large-scale works from 1863 to 1890 provide a further sense of context. Our exhibition and its accompanying catalogue are guided by a desire to understand Renoir's complex ambitions as a young artist, when he submitted works to both the avant-garde Impressionist exhibitions and to the official Salon. While painting in the new Impressionist style, Renoir remained uniquely committed to the full-length--a traditional format eschewed by most of his fellow Impressionists. Monet, one of few Impressionists to paint several large full-lengths, abandoned the format by the mid-1870s. The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue will draw upon contemporary criticism, literature, and archival documents to explore the motivation behind Renoir's full-length figure paintings as well as their reception. His use of the full-length will be understood not only within the Impressionist mileu, but also in relation to contemporary academic painters who were the main exponents of the full-length tradition." - Publisher. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: An impressionist painting large: Renoir, exhibitions, and the full-length format, 1863-1885; 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 and Dance in the country; Dance at Bougival.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio.