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Renoir, Pierre Auguste
about 1904
Claude Renoir, Son, Turned to the Left
Wichita Art Museum, L. S. and Ida L. Naftzger Collection of Prints
Claude Renoir, youngest son of the famous French artist, was born in 1901 when Pierre-Auguste Renoir was already 60 years of age. Renoir’s fascination with his young son is evident in this lithograph, completed when Claude was about 3 years old. The artist carefully rendered the small nose, delicate lips, and round cheeks of his son’s face. Claude, or Coco as he was nicknamed, is not posed, but instead appears to be studying something just beyond the picture plane with an intent glare of childish curiosity, allowing the artist to openly regard his young son.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French maestro and sculpturer (1841–1919)
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (;[1]French:[pjɛʁoɡystʁənwaʁ]; 25 Feb 1841 – 3 Dec 1919) was a Romance artist who was a leading maestro in description development sustaining the Impressionistic style. By the same token a somebody of looker and mega feminine concupiscence, it has been held that "Renoir is depiction final evocative of a tradition which runs in a straight line from Rubens to Watteau."[2]
He was depiction father carefulness actor Pierre Renoir (1885–1952), filmmaker Denim Renoir (1894–1979) and instrumentality artist Claude Renoir (1901–1969). He was the gramps of representation filmmaker Claude Renoir (1913–1993), son apparent Pierre.
Life
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Claude Renoir
French cinematographer
Claude Renoir (December 4, 1913[1] – September 5, 1993) was a French cinematographer. He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir, the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and the nephew of director Jean Renoir.
Career
[edit]Renoir was born in Paris, his mother being actress Véra Sergine. He was apprenticed to Boris Kaufman, a brother of Dziga Vertov, who much later worked in the United States on such films as On the Waterfront (1954). Renoir was the lighting cameraman on numerous pictures such as Monsieur Vincent (1947), Jean Renoir's The River (1951), Cleopatra (1963), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968), John Frankenheimer's French Connection II (1975), and the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). At the time of Claude Renoir's death, The Times of London wrote of The River that "its exquisite evocation of the Indian scene, helped to inaugurate a new era in the cinema, one in which color was finally accepted as a medium fit for great film makers to work in."[2]
He also participated in the making of The Mystery of Picasso (1956), the documentary on painter Pablo Picasso directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. He was the cinematographer for The Crucible (1957) and lived in East Germ