160
Claude was a Charigot family name: see Ch. 2 above. Coco/Claude was twelve at his nephew’s birth. Albert André and Pierre Renoir had become friends.
161
According to certain Jewish customs, a newborn may be given either the name of a deceased close relative or a name with the same first initial. Véra’s father’s name was Hippolyte, which may be the source of the name Henri.
162
Some five weeks before Véra gave birth, Rivière wrote to Jean Renoir that Pierre and Véra had been to his Paris apartment for lunch; unpublished, Rivière to Jean Renoir, Paris, 29 October 1914, private collection.
163
Unpublished, Pierre Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Paris, 25 June 1915, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
164
Jean Renoir, ‘Pour tout vous dire’. François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois (1641–91).
165
Jean Renoir in Braudy, ‘Renoir at Home: Interview’, p. 189.
166
See Cardullo, Jean Renoir Interviews, p. ix.
167
Unpublished, Rivière to Aline, Paris, 20 November 1912, private collection.
168
Denis, entry n.d. [1913], Journal, vol. 2, pp. 150–51.
169
Dragoon, dragon in French, is the name for a mounted infantryman armed with a carbine, who dismounted to fight on foot. During the later eighteenth century and the Napoleonic Wars, dragoon regiments in most armies evolved into conventional cavalry.
170
See unpublished, Colonel d’Aouitte [not clear] to Renoir, Joigny, 17 February 1913, in University of California Los Angeles, Arts Library Special Collections, Jean Renoir Papers.
171
Unpublished, Jean Renoir’s military record book, Paris, 17 February 1913, copy in Paris, Documentation Orsay.
172
Jean Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [c. 17 February 1913], in Jean Renoir Letters, p. 4.
173
Jean describes these colours in ‘Pour tout vous dire’.
174
Unpublished, Jeanne Baudot to Renoir, Louveciennes, 29 December 1913, private collection.
175
See n. 170 above.
176
Unpublished, Rivière to Renoir, Paris, 30 April 1913, private collection.
177
Unpublished, Rivière to Renoir, Paris, 21 December 1913, private collection.
178
Unpublished, Rivière to Renoir, Paris, 7 December 1913, private collection.
179
Jean Renoir to Aline Renoir, n.l. [Joigny], n.d. [c. January 1914], in Jean Renoir Letters, p. 6.
180
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Nice], 27 January 1914, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 138.
181
Paris, Durand-Ruel, January–April 1914, group show including works by André and eight still lifes and flowers by Renoir.
182
Jean Renoir to André, n.l., 10 April [1914], in Jean Renoir Letters, p. 7.
183
Jean Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Luçon], 9 April 1914, in ibid., p. 6.
184
Renoir to André, n.l. [Cagnes], 28 April 1914, in ‘Lettres de Renoir à quelques amis’, p. 61.
185
Drucker, Renoir, pp. 221–2.
186
Durieux, Séances de pose chez Renoir en 1914, p. 19. See also Bailey, Portraits, pp. 259–61. For a photograph of Renoir painting the actress from his wheelchair see White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 262.
187
Durieux, Séances de pose, pp. 15–26.
188
See n. 130 above. The following year, Renoir painted a portrait of their son, Alexander; Dauberville, vol. 5, pl. 4267.
189
Bailey, Renoir Portraits, p. 260.
190
Durieux, Séances de pose, p. 21.
191
Ibid., p. 23.
192
Ibid., p. 27. Durieux took the portrait with her when she left Germany in 1933, first to Switzerland and then Zagreb. Then it went to the Cassirer Gallery in Amsterdam, who sold it to America in 1935. Eventually it went to the Stephen C. Clark collection and, in 1960, entered New York’s Metropolitan Museum, where it is on view.
193
Sowerwine, France since 1870, p. 117.
194
Silke, ‘Jean Renoir on Love, Hollywood, Authors, and Critics’, p. 135; his 1937 film, Grand Illusion, expresses this optimism.
195
Unpublished, Renoir to André, Cagnes, n.d. [late September 1914], in Paris, Institut Néerlandais, Fondation Custodia (Collection F. Lugt).
196
Renoir to unidentified recipient, Cagnes, 12 October 1914, excerpt in Stargardt sale catalogue 567, 26–27 May 1964, no. 831.
197
Renoir to Georges Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Cagnes], 25 March 1915, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 158.
198
Sowerwine, France since 1870, p. 109.
199
Pierre Renoir, interview with Jean Trigery, L’Union française, October 1943, in Pharisien, Pierre Renoir, p. 81.
200
Renoir to André, Cagnes, n.d. [late September 1914], in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 271.
201
Unpublished, Renoir to Mme Gangnat, Cagnes, 31 October 1914, private collection.
202
Pierre Renoir, interview, Le Matin, 6 February 1937, in Pharisien, Pierre Renoir, p. 82.
203
See ibid., pp. 449–500.
204
Unpublished, Renoir to Army headquarters, Cagnes, 15 September 1914, in University of California Los Angeles, Arts Library Special Collections, Jean Renoir Papers.
205
Unpublished, Chief of the Headquarters of the Company, 1st Regiment of Dragoons, to Renoir, Luçon, 21 September 1914, in ibid.
206
Jean’s son explained that his father had told him that he had gonorrhoea at this time; interview with the author, September 2006. See also Jean Renoir Letters, p. 7.
207
Unpublished, Renoir to Mme Gangnat, Cagnes, 31 October 1914, private collection.
208
Renoir to André, Cagnes, 17 November 1914, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 272.
209
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Cagnes], 29 October 1914, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 148.
210
Unpublished, Rivière to Jean Renoir, Paris, 29 October 1914, private collection.
211
Renoir to Monet, Cagnes, 22 November 1914, excerpt in Paris, Artcurial sale catalogue, 13 December 2006, no. 276.
212
Unpublished, André to Durand-Ruel, Laudun, 12 December 1914, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
213
Unpublished marriage certificate, Véra and Pierre Renoir, Cagnes, 23 December 1914, private collection.
214
Unpublished, André to Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 20 December 1914, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
215
Unpublished, Cassatt to Louisine Havemeyer, Grasse, 20 January [1915], in New York, Metropolitan Museum, Archives, Box 1, Folder 13.
216
Unpublished marriage certificate, Véra and Pierre Renoir; Renoir signed the day before the wedding, Aline signed at the ceremony.
217
Unpublished, André to Georges Durand-Ruel, Laudun, 29 December 1914, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
218
Unpublished marriage certificate, Véra and Pierre Renoir.
219
Ibid; Pharisien, Pierre Renoir, p. 83.
220
Dauberville, vol. 5, pl. 4222, inherited by Claude Renoir Jr; pl. 4273.
221
While Pierre waited for arm surgery, he had several smaller procedures, such as the removal of bone fragments; see Renoir to André, Cag
nes, 17 November 1914, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 272: ‘Pierre writes me this morning that he is still waiting for the bone scraping that is supposed to take place one of these days.’
222
Unpublished, André to Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 20 December 1914, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
223
Renoir to Georges Durand-Ruel, [Cagnes], 25 March 1915, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 158.
224
Renoir to André, n.l. [Cagnes] 16 April 1915, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 272 n. 84.
225
Unpublished, Rivière to Renoir, Paris, 21 June 1915, private collection.
226
Pharisien, Pierre Renoir, p. 94 n. 3. Pharisien learned of Pierre’s abdomen injuries from Elisa Ruis, Pierre’s last wife, whom Pharisien met in 1999. Alain Renoir (Pierre’s nephew) gave me the same information, interview, September 2006.
227
Unpublished, Cassatt to Louisine Havemeyer, Grasse, 20 January [1915], in New York, Metropolitan Museum, Archives, Box 1, Folder 13.
228
Georges Durand-Ruel to Renoir, Paris, 25 January 1915, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 157.
229
Unpublished, Cassatt to Durand-Ruel, Nice, 5 March 1925, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
230
Renoir to Georges Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Cagnes], 25 March 1915, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 158.
231
Unpublished, Renoir to André, Cagnes, 16 April 1915, in Paris, Institut Néerlandais, Fondation Custodia (Collection F. Lugt).
232
Nogueira and Truchaud, ‘Interview with Jean Renoir’, 1968, p. 180.
233
Alain Renoir, interview with the author, September 2006.
234
Unpublished, Jean Renoir’s military record book, 7 July 1915, private collection.
235
Renoir to Gaston Bernheim de Villers, Cagnes, 24 May 1915, in Dauberville, vol. 1, p. 70.
236
Jean Renoir, ‘Pour tout vous dire’.
237
This operation was invented by the French surgeon Lucien Laroyenne (1831–1902).
238
Aline to Rivière, Gérardmer, n.d. [c. 14 May] 1915, in Jean Renoir Letters, p. 9.
239
Aline to Rivière, Gérardmer, n.d. [16 May] 1915, in ibid.
240
Aline to Rivière, Gérardmer, 22 May 1915, in ibid., p. 10.
241
Aline to Rivière, Gérardmer, 26 May 1915, in ibid.
242
Unpublished, Rivière to Renoir, Paris, 21 June 1915, private collection.
243
Jean Renoir’s joking name for a nurse with big breasts.
244
Jean to Aline, n.l. [Besançon], 22 June 1915, in Jean Renoir Letters, p. 11.
245
Jean to Aline, n.l. [Besançon], 21 June [1915], in Jean Renoir, Correspondance 1913–1978, p. 11.
246
Renoir to Bernheim, n.l. [Nice or Cagnes], 24 June 1915, in Dauberville, vol. 1, p. 60.
247
Jean to Aline, n.l. [Besançon], 26 June 1915, in Jean Renoir Letters, p. 11.
248
Ibid.
249
Renoir to Marguerite André, Nice, 26 June 1915, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 273.
250
Unpublished, Pierre Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Paris, 25 June 1915, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
251
Unpublished death certificate, 27 June 1915, Ville de Nice, Archives.
252
Unpublished, Renoir to Vollard, Cagnes, 1 July 1915, in Paris, Bibliothèque des Musées Nationaux du Fonds Vollard, Ms 421 on microfilm.
253
Renoir to Marguerite André, Cagnes, 3 July 1915, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, pp. 273, 276 (French p. 273).
254
Pharisien and Chartrand, Victor Charigot, pp. 121–3.
255
For Victor Renoir see Chs 1 and 3 above. Victor had been a tailor in Russia and in France was one of the witnesses on Pierre’s birth certificate in 1885.
256
Burial document, Essoyes, 22 September 1915, in Pharisien and Chartrand, Victor Charigot, p. 125; see also pp. 121–3.
257
Cassatt to Louisine Havemeyer; see n. 113 above.
258
Nine months after Renoir died, on 12 August 1920, Pierre purchased a cemetery plot for his father in Essoyes adjacent to his mother’s plot. See Pharisien and Chartrand, Victor Charigot, p. 134.
259
Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 969, 81.3 × 64.8 cm (32 × 25½ in.).
260
Ibid., vol. 5, pl. 4004, 51 × 40.5 cm (20⅛ × 16 in.).
261
Unpublished, Renoir to Guino, Essoyes, 23 July 1916, private collection.
262
Haesaerts, Renoir Sculptor, pl. XXXII (plaster); White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 270 (bronze).
263
Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 1066.
264
Unpublished receipt, Renoir to Guino, Cagnes, 11 January 1918, private collection. This painted plaster bust is in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
265
Haesaerts, Renoir Sculptor, pl. XXXV.
266
For another version of Guino’s 1913 bust of Renoir, at the Musée des Collettes, see White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 257.
267
Unpublished, Cassatt to Durand-Ruel, Grasse, 12 February 1914, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
268
Unpublished, Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Nice, 28 June 1915, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
269
Renoir to R. Umehara, Cagnes, 2 August 1918, in Hanako Shimada, ‘L’Amitié entre Renoir et Umehara’, p. 13.
270
Unpublished, Thérèse Mélanie Charigot to Jean Renoir, Essoyes, 11 December 1915, private collection.
271
Ibid.
272
See Ch. 4, p. 213 and n. 183; Pharisien and Chartrand, Victor Charigot, pp. 104, 129.
273
White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 284.
274
Unpublished, Renoir to Vollard, Cagnes, 17 December 1915, in Paris, Bibliothèque des Musées Nationaux du Fonds Vollard, Ms. 421 on microfilm.
275
Unpublished, Renoir to Gangnat, Cagnes, 18 December 1915, private collection.
276
Unpublished, Renoir to Vollard, Cagnes, 18 December 1915, in Paris, Bibliothèque des Musées Nationaux du Fonds Vollard, Ms. 421 on microfilm.
277
Ibid.
278
Unpublished, Renoir to Gangnat, see n. 275 above.
279
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, Cagnes, 30 December 1915, private collection.
280
Renoir to André, Cagnes, 3 January 1916, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 276.
281
See n. 113 above.
282
See n. 114 above.
283
Claude Renoir, ‘Renoir, sa toile à l’ombre d’un parasol’, n.p.
Chapter 7 1915–19
1
Unpublished, Renoir to Guino, Cagnes, 17 November 1915, private collection.
2
Renoir to Georges Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Cagnes], 29 November 1916, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 178.
3
Monet to Georges Durand-Ruel, Giverny, 13 December 1916, in Venturi, Archives de l’impressionnisme, vo1. 1, p. 444.
4
Unpublished, André to Georges Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 19 December 1916, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
5
Unpublished, André to Paul Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 24 December 1917, in ibid.
6
Renoir t
o Paul or Joseph Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 16 March 1918, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 230.
7
Unpublished, André to Paul Durand-Ruel, Marseilles, 2 May 1918, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
8
Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, Cagnes, 22 May 1918, in Baudot, Renoir, ses amis, ses modèles, p. 89.
9
Sacha Guitry, Ceux de chez nous, 1915, available on www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3ZjfK9uYDY, accessed 20 December 2016.
10
Guitry’s completed silent film of 22 minutes was shot between June and October 1915 and first shown in Paris on 22 November 1915. Many other famous people appeared in the film, including Sarah Bernhardt, Degas, Monet and Rodin.
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