Payette Pierre (5 results)

Couverture souple. Condition: Bonne Condition. Édition Revue et Corrigée. Couverture légèrement usée. Nombreux passages surlignés. 181 p. Envoi soigné.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition textured black boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Susan Vreeland; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; Author's Note and Acknowledgments. Illustrated with two sections of color plate paintings and map illustrated front and rear endpapers. "Bestselling author Susan Vreeland returns with a vivid exploration of one of the most beloved paintings in the world, Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party. Instantly recognizable, Auguste Renoir's masterpiece depicts a gathering of his friends enjoying a summer Sunday on a cafe terrace along the Seine near Paris. An art collector, an Italian journalist, a war hero, a wealthy painter, a celebrated actress, and Renoir's future wife, among others, share this moment of las vie moderne, a time when social constraints were loosening and Paris was healing after the Franco-Prussian War. Parisians were bursting with a desire for pleasure and a yearnng to create something extraordinary out of life. Renoir shared these urges and took on this most challenging project at a time of personal crises in art and love, all the while facing issues of loyalty and the diverging styles that were tearing apart the Impressionist group. Narrated by Renoir and seven of the models, and using settings in Paris and on the Seine, Vreeland illuminates the gusto, hedonism, and art of the era. With a gorgeous palette of vibrant, captivating characters, she paints their lives, loves, losses, and triumphs in a brilliant portrait of her own." - from the inner front jacket flap. "Susan Vreeland's Luncheon of the Boating Party shimmers like the surface of an Impressionist painting. My heart sings with the amazing artistic achievement of the author. Through her words and imagination, I have been allowed to enter the bohemian, artistic life of Paris in the 1880s. I thank Susan Vreeland for enriching my life." - Sena Jeter Naslund, author. "The figures stroll from Renoir's painting and into the pages of Susan Vreeland's new novel with all the vibrancy and elegance of the canvas itself. A marvelous evocation that brings a painting - and an entire age - beautifully to life." - Ross King, author. "An impressionistically dazzling and humane as the Renoir painting that inspires it. [The book] is itself a true work of art that blends the manifest joys and the impossible longings of life into a single coherent vision. Susan Vreeland has for some time been one of our finest writers, and this is her best book yet." - Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author. "Vreeland magically transported me into the wonderful world of Renoir and his models. I lived there, tasted and breathed the atmosphere. A rich, compulsive read." - Edward Rutherfurd, author. Payette, Maggie (jacket design); Renoir, Pierre Auguste (jacket art) (illustrator).…

Couverture Souple illustrée. Condition: Bon. 181 pages.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Coll. Nordicana,188 p. Usure à la couverture. Code 1373.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.