Lucy, Martha and John House — Renoir in the Barnes Foundation

New Haven, Conn, Yale University Press, 2012. Hardcover. Electric orange cloth with white lettering on spine, chocolate & color illustrated dust jacket, ix, 382 pp. 555 color illustrations. "The first volume to publish the entirety" of the "astonishing Renoir collection" gathered by Philadelphia scientist and collector Dr. Albert C. Barnes. "A passionate supporter of European modernism, Barnes built a colelction that was virtually unrivaled, with massive holdings by Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. But it was Renoir that Barnes admired above all other artists; he thought of him as a god and collected his work tenaciously, amassing 181 works by the painter between 1912 and 1942. All of these Renoirs are included in this lavishly illustrated book." (dj). VG+/VG+ A pristine copy .