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Accent (CBS, 1-1:30 p.m.). French Film Director Jean Renoir, son of Pierre Auguste Renoir, discusses the life and works of his father...
...years ago that Director Otto Karl Bach started his search for a painting that would fit in with his tiny cluster of top treasures, ranging from a Veronese and a Tintoretto to a Degas and a Renoir. He was not necessarily looking for a big name, but at the Wildenstein Gallery in Manhattan he happened to spot the Rembrandt in its marvelously fussy 17th century frame. The price for the painting was $95,000, but the gallery was willing to sell it on the installment plan. By last week the museum had collected from private gifts two-thirds...
When in 1862 Sisley joined the class of the renowned Parisian teacher Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, two fellow students happened to be Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet. Monet disdained Gleyre, who once berated him for painting a model with all its deformities. "Nature, my friend, is all right as an element of study," said Gleyre, "but it offers no interest. Style, you see, is everything." By 1864, Renoir, Monet, Sisley and their fellow student Jean Bazille had settled down near Fontainebleau to paint nature as they...
TELEPIX: The Crime of M. Lange, a charming flick from one of France's masters, Jean Renoir, tells of an idealistic writer who gives his publisher some of his own medicine...
After Batala's first "death" his employees form a cooperative to run the press and publish Lange's magnum opus, Arizona Jim. The faubourg rejoices. Renoir illustrates the new freedom by continuing the visual symbolism of the street-building flux. Lange's invalid brother is living in a room whose windows are blocked by one of Batala's billboards. The new regime tears down the poster and Lange's brother looks out onto the street for the first time...