In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as 'Grand Illusion' and 'The Rules of the Game,' tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter.

moving portrait of a father/son relationship.

Language Notes:īook Description Paperback. With Dorothy Weaver, he translated Renoir, My Father by Jean Renoir.ĭorothy Weaver and Randolph Weaver translated Jean Renoir's Renoir, My Father, a memoir about his father, the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Randolph Weaver translated several books from French into English. His most recent book is Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Nature’s Workshop: Renoir’s Writings on the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. In 1975 Jean Renoir received an Academy Award for his lifetime contribution to the cinema. He directed his first film, La Fille de l’eau, in 1925 and followed it with many others, including his masterpieces Grand Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939). Jean Renoir (1894–1979), the son of the painter Auguste Renoir, was born in Paris, grew up in the south of France, and served as a cavalryman and pilot during World War I.

Renoir my father