First Impressions: Pierre Auguste Renoir

By Susan Rayfield

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810937956
• ISBN13: 9780810937956
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.8" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 5 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary