The Girl in Blue: Renoir’s Portrait of a Dynasty Erased traces the artist’s “La Petite Irène,” its theft from a wealthy Jewish family during WWII, and the fate of the girl it immortalized. In 1941, the Nazis plundered the haunting masterpiece from France, and the painting slipped from view. Drawing on newly uncovered documents and archival records, Doreen Carvajal reconstructs the intertwined journeys of the painting and its subject. In The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal, Catherine Ostler tells the story of three sisters, daughters of a prominent French Jewish family, who, as children, were painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Between the belle epoque to World War II, one would marry an English aristocrat and escape, one would become a Nazi collaborator, and one would die in Auschwitz. The authors are joined by author and journalist Lisa Barr.

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