Over the course of his long career, Pierre-Auguste Renoir continually turned to the human figure for artistic inspiration.
The body – particularly the nude – was the defining subject of Renoir’s artistic practice from his early days as a student copying the old masters in the Louvre to the early 20th century, when his revolutionary style of painting inspired the masters of modernism.
In recognition of the centenary of Renoir’s death, the Clark Art Institute and Kimbell Art Museum present Renoir: The Body, The Senses.
Described as a “daring exhibition,” the showing is the first major exploration of Renoir’s unceasing interest in the human form, and it reconsiders Renoir as a constantly evolving artist whose style moved from Realism into luminous Impressionism, culminating in the modern classicism of his last decades, the Kimbell said in a news release.
The exhibition is co-organized by Esther Bell, Martha and Robert Lipp Chief Curator at the Clark, and George T. M. Shackelford, deputy director at the Kimbell.
It will be on view at the Clark in Williamstown, Massachusetts, June 8-Sept. 22, 2019, and at the Kimbell Oct. 27, 2019-Jan. 26, 2020.
Renoir: The Body, The Senses includes approximately 60 paintings, drawings, pastels and sculptures by the artist as well as works by his predecessors, contemporaries and followers.
– FWBP Staff