The Renoir Girls

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Three sisters, the daughters of a prominent French Jew ish family, all painted as children by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In the turbulent years from the Belle Epoque to World War II, one would marry an English aristocrat and escape; one would become a collaborator with the Nazis; one would die in Auschwitz. This is the remarkable hidden history of the lives behind Renoir’s beguiling portraits. Paris, 1881. The artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir knocks on the door of a wealthy Jewish family’s home in the 8