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...Renoir's Roses in a Vase...
Seated in his wheelchair, his brush bound to his hand between two fingers, the painter worked intently on his canvas, his grey-green eyes squinting at the luxuriant landscape. "Merde," he murmured, "but it's beautiful!" He was Auguste Renoir, already in his late 70s and crippled by rheumatism, but lively in his opinions (shown a Picasso painting, he shouted: "Take that filth away!") and unabashedly glorying in his work. Showing a nude he had just completed, he confessed that his model was the baker's wife, exclaimed: "She had a bottom-oh, forgive...
Juices of Life. The recorder of this Renoir scene of 1918 is Michel Georges-Michel, 73-year-old dean of Paris art critics, who began his career by interviewing Edgar Degas, has in a busy lifetime turned out more than a hundred books-novels, histories, art studies. To top off his career, Michel Georges-Michel this week is bringing out the American edition of his carefully culled memoirs (From Renoir to Picasso; Houghton Mifflin; $4). Glittering with wit and the reflections of the great, M. G.-M.'s book is not only lively anecdotal history but a refreshing reminder...
...tone. He writes with a simple eloquence that hides the labor of the file which must lurk in his carefully wrought phrases and comparisons. Perhaps his eloquence has the unhappy effect of making one think that the book communicates more than it does; to "explain" the Greeks, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Renoir, Picasso forces a certain glibness, even what seems like a comparatively limited aspect of art history. For if he enlarges the context of his critism perhaps too ambitiously, although on the surface and to the layman, the result is entirely happy...
Odyssey (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). Jean Renoir's prizewinning film Farrebique, a classic study of life on a French farm...