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

By Catherine Ostler
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By Catherine Ostler
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Three sisters, three very different fates. Renoir’s famous portrait inspires this powerful story of a French Jewish dynasty’s art, privilege and survival.

Three sisters, the daughters of a prominent French Jewish family, all painted as children by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In the turbulent years from the Belle Epoque to World War II, one would marry an English aristocrat and escape; one would become a collaborator with the Nazis; one would die in Auschwitz. This is the remarkable hidden history of the lives behind Renoir’s beguiling portraits.

Paris, 1881. The artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir knocks on the door of a wealthy Jewish family’s home in ...

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