Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's famous painting Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880-81) portrays an informal gathering of real people he knew: fellow artists, journalists, critics, collectors, models and actors. Renoir and Friends deconstructs the painting, revealing the stories behind those he painted and explaining his working methods. Extraordinary details, photographs and contextual works - by Renoir and his contemporaries including Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Leon Bonnat and Edouard Manet, draw out information about who these people were. Essays by leading academics focus on Renoir's models and look at how the artist created a painting with universal appeal whilst remaining convincingly specific. AUTHOR: Eliza Rathbone is chief curator emerita at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. SELLING POINTS: . The first volume to look in depth at Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party . Features over 100 colour images of works by Renoir and his contemporaries, from international museum and private collections 102 colour illustrations

Eliza Rathbone is chief curator emerita at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. she was assistant curator, Twentieth-Century Art, National Gallery of Art, 1979-1985 and associate curator, curator of Twentieth-Century Art, and chief curator, the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 1985-2014.

Mary Morton is curator and head of the French paintings department at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. She received her PhD from Brown University, concentrating on 19th and early 20th century European painting. Dr. Morton spent five years as associate curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

Sylvie Patry is deputy director for Collections & Exhibitions and Gund Family Chief Curator, Barnes Foundation.

Aileen Ribeiro was Head of the History of Dress Department at the Courtauld Institute from 1975 to 2009; appointed Professor in the History of Art at the University of London in 2000, she is now Professor Emeritus. She lectures widely in Great Britain, Europe and North America, and has acted as costume consultant/contributor to many major exhibitions of art.

Elizabeth Steele is head of conservation at the Phillips Collection.

Sara Tas is a curator at the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam.

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