Catherine Ostler
Writer and historian, author of The Renoir Girls, who appears as the featured guest to discuss her archival research and the family history behind Renoir's portraits.
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Apr 11, 2026 • 22min
Spectator Out Loud: Catherine Ostler, Paul Wood, John Power & David Whitehouse
Catherine Ostler, former Tatler editor and author of The Renoir Girls, muses on courtroom drama, art and hidden histories. John Power, writer and walking enthusiast, urges teenage boys to swap screens for the Kent coast and long hikes. David Whitehouse, astrophysicist and science writer, describes Artemis II and sightings of the moon's far side. Paul Wood discusses the unpredictable geopolitics around Iran and Trump.
Apr 7, 2026 • 43min
Who Are Renoir’s Mystery Girls? With Catherine Ostler
Catherine Ostler, writer and historian and author of The Renoir Girls, explores the Cahen d’Anvers sisters behind Renoir’s Pink and Blue. She traces salon life, family scandal, conversions and mobility in Belle Époque Paris. The conversation follows the paintings’ wartime journeys, differing fates of the sisters, and how art became a witness to exile, identity and loss.
