Pierre-August Renoir

One of a series for children which presents biographies of leading artists, this is a description of Renoir's personal struggles to overcome poverty, criticism and disability.

It tells how he spent years experimenting until, just as he was finally achieving success, he was struck with arthritis, and how he continued to paint with a brush wedged between permanently twisted fingers, to produce some of the most luminous and ambitious paintings of his career.The book also contains colour reproductions and archive photographs, as well as first-person accounts by the artist himself, his contemporaries, and his film-maker son, Jean Renoir.