A must of this autumn in Paris!
The Galeries nationales du Grand Palais exhibit Pierre-Auguste Renoir, until the 4th of January 2010.
Entitled “Renoir in the 20th century”, the exhibition is designed to shed new light on little-known aspects of Renoir’s work while reaffirming the influence of his art throughout the first half of the 20th century in France.
In 1913, “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”, says the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919).
Some one hundred Renoir paintings, drawings and sculptures are gathered together and are set against works by Picasso, Matisse, Maillol and Bonnard, giving an indication of the artist’s influence and legacy.
Until the 4th of January 2010
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
Underground stations: Franklin.D Roosevelt or Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau