In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, director of cinematic masterpieces such as ‘Grand Illusion’ and ‘Rules of the Game’, tells the life-story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great impressionist painter.

In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste’s extraordinary career, beginning as a painter of fans and porcelain, recording the rules of thumb by which he worked, and capturing his unpretentious and wonderfully engaging talk and personality, Jean Renoir’s book is both a wonderful double portrait of father and son and the best book that has been written about Renoir and his paintings.