It took place in the dining room at Les Collettes. “With my prick,” replied Renoir, really vulgar for once. “With such hands, how do you paint?” the man asked, crudely. Once, towards the end of his life, I heard him make the following rejoinder to a journalist who seemed to be astonished by his crippled hands:
An English translation was also released in 1962, and it contained the following significant passage about the elder Renoir : In 1962 Jean Renoir, the prominent filmmaker and son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, published a biography of his father. QI believes that the first quote is based on a conversational exchange that occurred between Renoir and a journalist that was witnessed by several individuals and reported by his son. Quote Investigator: There is substantive evidence connecting Pierre-Auguste Renoir to both of the quotes listed above. This important reference work presented the following phrase attributed to Renoir in 1919 and suggested that the quote above may have been inaccurately derived from it :Ĭould you explore the provenance of these phrases? Recently, I was surprised to discover that the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations has placed this phrase in their Misquotations section. For many years he has been credited with the following outrageous facetious quotation:
Lawrence? Bernard Malamud? Apocryphal?ĭear Quote Investigator: The master painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir is my favorite Impressionist artist. Pierre-Auguste Renoir? Jean Renoir? Ōe Kenzaburō? Jeanette Winterson? D.
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