An absolute joy and a pleasure to have @ceostler in the shop signing copies of her new book ‘The Renoir Girls’.
Fantastically well researched, and beautifully written, it’s definitely a book worth adding to your shelves.
Click the link in our bio to purchase via our website, or, as always, we would love to welcome you into the shop!
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Painted by Pierre-Auguste #Renoir in a haze of light and lace, ‘Pink and Blue’ is one of the most celebrated society portraits of all time. Less known? The tragic fate of the sisters in the painting.
Daughters of a Jewish banking dynasty, the pair – and their sister Irène – would face dramatically different destinies. Digging through letters, archives and private detective reports, Catherine Ostler uncovers a truer portrait of a gilded dynasty caught in the fault lines of a fracturing Europe in her new book The Renoir Girls.
Here the author, historian and former Tatler Editor reveals the most shocking revelations of all in this story of art and high society. See more in Tatler’s May issue, on sale now or at the link in bio.
Last few tickets available for my talk on The Renoir Girls (‘Thrilling .. essential reading for our times’ The Times) on Tuesday, 21st April, now at the Royal Scots Club, 7pm. What lies behind Renoir’s painting and in front of the lives of his subjects? A (true) story of art, beauty and betrayal. With modern science thrown in at the DNA level 🎺📘tickets @toppingsedin website and link in bio #toppingandcompanyedinburgh #edinburgh
The story Jewish girls painted by Renoir who were betrayed by France: the Cahen d’Anvers sisters.
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Catherine Ostler’s new book, 'The Renoir Girls', explores the tragic fate of these three sisters depicted in some of the painter’s most famous works ('Pink and Blue' and 'The Little Girl with the Blue Ribbon') - one of whom was murdered at Auschwitz.
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📰 Full story at thejc.com - link in bio.
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Discussing the Renoir Girls this week 1) in the beautiful auditorium at the @vamuseum with @simonsebag_montefiore and 2) in the exquisite @hatchardspiccadilly with @mcauley.james - we laughed, we cried and we were grateful to our delightful and sold-out audiences 🤣♥️📚
Much gratitude to those who have reviewed the Renoir Girls this week: 1) Daily Mail, Book of the Week ‘profoundly moving.. consummate skill and impressive research… I felt I was inside an Impressionist painting, dazzled by colour and fun.’ 2) Country Life ‘Rich and telling.. an involving and wide-ranging family saga..a big twist in reserve for the very end’ 3) The London Standard, The List, The Big Read 📚📚📚
My new book THE RENOIR GIRLS is out today - in all good bookshops and online - and I am thrilled at how beautiful it looks, both the cover and inside. I do hope you enjoy it xxx
‘Essential reading for our times’ - The Times (Book of the Week)
My interview with the wonderful Marina Bayliss, granddaughter of Renoir’s girl in pink, is out today in the Telegraph Luxury Magazine. Her grandmother, Alice Cahen d’Anvers, Lady Townshend by then, smuggled her out of France in 1940 as the Nazis descended. Today she is behind the renowned ‘Marina’s chocolate cake’ at her son’s serene restaurant, Bellamy’s of Mayfair. Marina helped me so much with my research and it was a joy to write this piece 💕
And here is my piece on the chateau restored by Louis and Louise Cahen d’Anvers (the parents of The Renoir Girls) in the 1890s, for the Financial Times’ HTSI magazine…with thanks to @jellison22
‘Thrilling…much more than an engrossing family saga…essential reading for our times.’ Thank you so much to Kathryn Hughes for this wonderful review and to The Times for making The Renoir Girls its Book of the Week!
There is nothing more blissful for a writer than finding another with overlapping obsessions, otherwise known as the rabbit hole. Hence it will be a joy to talk about art, Proustian Paris, and a vanished world of an extraordinarily alluring family, the Cahen d’Anvers, the topic of my new book, The Renoir Girls, with James McAuley (the House of Fragile Things). Join us as at the suitably beautiful and historic Hatchards Piccadilly on 14th April at 6:60pm. The link for tickets is:
