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Meet Dominique Auzel, author of the book Love Is a Celebration! According to Renoir, a historical novel in the Le roman d’un chef d’œuvre collection from the publisher les ateliers HD. Dominique Auzel works in publishing and has written numerous books on cinema. In 2024, he published Ouvriers, artisans du beau selon Caillebotte in the well-known Le roman d’un chef d’œuvre collection at les ateliers HD.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) began his career in Limoges as a porcelain painter. After arriving in Paris, he became friends with, among others, Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley. Renoir, who loved painting outdoors, frequented the guinguettes along the Seine with Monet; he devoted himself to studying figures and worked on the effects of light, which profoundly transformed painting. Auguste Renoir exhibited with his Impressionist friends from 1874 onward and created major masterpieces, such as Le Bal du Moulin de la galette, in 1876. This painting received a mixed response at the 1877 exhibition, with some journalists and visitors mocking this new kind of work. The painting immortalizes the atmosphere of a Montmartre guinguette where a crowd of workers, seamstresses, courtesans, bourgeois, and artists gathered to dance to the sound of the orchestra. Through small touches of soft color, it evokes the movement of the dance and the shared happiness of that summer day. George Rivière, an art critic, wrote of it: “It is a true historical document, a precious monument representing Parisian life with rigorous accuracy.” Exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay, Renoir et l'amour, until July 19, 2026.
Source: paris.fr — photo: © Musée d'Orsay