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The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal

By (author) Catherine Ostler

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An astonishing true story of splendour, scandal and tragedy in Golden Age Paris. In 1881, Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted two young sisters from a Jewish banking dynasty at their home in Parisâ€™s grand 8th arrondissement.Â Pink and Blue,Â a portrait of Elisabeth and Alice Cahen dâ€™Anvers,Â captures a fleeting moment of innocence and beauty, and today it is one of Renoirâ€™s most celebrated works. His portrait evokes the glamourÂ of the Belle Ã‰poque: days at the races, nights at the opera, sun-soaked chateaux, brilliant salons filled with art, music and conversation. Paris at its most dazzling.Â Yet beneath the glittering surface was a surging current of resentment. Renoirâ€™s Impressionist masterpiece, radiant with light andÂ colour, hides both a family secret and the tensions of an era poised for rupture. The same society that was illuminated by progress and culture was cast into shadow by division, prejudice and rising antisemitism. The CahenÂ dâ€™Anvers, prominent patrons of this Golden Age, would come to embody both its glory and its tragedy.Â InÂ The Renoir Girls, Catherine Ostler paints a vivid and immersive portrait of intimate individual lives against the vast sweep of a changing Europe. Drawing on letters, diaries and exclusive new research, Ostler uncovers revelatory truths about a family at the heart of modern Europeâ€™s struggles. From the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War to the Dreyfus Affair and the devastation of two world wars, this is a powerful story of love, courage and identity in conflict with the forces of history.

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