ART
Renoir au XXe siècle |
Written 30 January |
Wednesday 23 September, 10:00Grand Palais, 75008 [map]Renoir
"I am beginning to learn how to paint. It has taken me over fifty years to get to this result, but there's still a long way to go", said the painter
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) in 1913 when a major exhibition of his work was staged at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery in Paris, including some large-format nudes painted in the early years of the twentieth century. The show was a revelation.
This year's exhibition has been designed in a twofold perspective: to shed new light on a period and little-known aspects of Renoir's work (notably his decorative paintings, drawings and sculptures), while reaffirming the influence of his art throughout the first half of the 20th century in France. Some one hundred Renoir paintings, drawings and sculptures have been gathered together and will be shown in fifteen sections where they will be set against works by
Picasso,
Matisse,
Maillol and
Bonnard, giving an indication of the artist's influence and legacy. The exhibition will thus be an invitation to look again at Renoir's late works through the eyes of artists who, in the first half of the 20th century, were the contemporary of a master who had plied much of his trade in the 19th.
| What: | Renoir |
| When: | Wednesday 23 September, 10:00 |
| Where: | Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill 75008 [map] |
| Transport: | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Cost: | 9-12EUR |
| Phone: | 01 43 59 52 49 |
| Web: | www.grandpalais.fr |
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