Philadelphia Musuem of Art
4 Ocotber, 2007 - January 6, 2008
Celebrated for his portraits and nudes, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is most often associated with figure painting. He was also a lover of nature, however, and an accomplished painter of landscapes.
This exhibition is the first to explore the inventiveness and importance of these landscapes during the first 30 years of the French Impressionist's career.
Remarkable in their freshness and immediacy, these works of art demonstrate the deep sources of his inspiration in nature and his fascination with the effects of natural light.
Approximately 70 paintings by Renoir, drawn from public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad, offer a fresh approach to Renoir's art.
The exhibition begins with works from the 1860s, shortly after Renoir met Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley in the studio of Charles Gleyre. It continues into the 1870s, when Renoir's own landscape style began to emerge—exploring the artist's extensive experimentation with color and composition.
The exhibition concludes with paintings from the 1880s, when Renoir's travels in Northern Africa and Italy exposed him to new landscape motifs and encouraged his use of an even more intense color palette.
They reveal the subtlety of touch, vaporous effects, and lush, full-blown color that mark the painter as one of the most audacious and original landscape artists of his age.
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