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The Museo del Prado, one of Europe’s most important museums, is going to open the first Renoir exhibition in Spain in October, the 19th to be more precise. The show is titled “Renoir (1841-1919)” and will present one of the world’s biggest collections of works by the French painter, owned by the Clark Art Institute from Massachusetts, which worked closely with the Prado Museum in order to set up this amazing exhibition. The exhibit will show 31 pieces owned by Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1957), founder of the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute.
The exhibition is meant to highlight the rich diversity of Renoir’s oeuvre, by showing his most relevant periods between 1874 and 1900. The artist was interested in different themes, such as: landscapes, flowers and dead nature, portraits, nudes, and feminine figures.
Sterling Clark inherited a huge fortune in 1910 and moved to Paris, where he started collecting art works. Without a doubt, Renoir was one of his favorites and, currently, the Clark collection is one of the biggest collections of the French painter in the world.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir is one of the most important painters of the French impressionism. And although the impressionism is based on the representation of the world through a spontaneous and subjective perspective, Renoir wasn’t always faithful to this paradigm and added a great amount of sensuality to his style, which was linked to oriental art and feminine beauty, though without distancing himself too much from the impressionist manifesto.
Without a doubt, “Renoir (1849-1919)” is one of the most important exhibitions that have been shown at the Prado lately, so if you don’t want to miss this amazing opportunity, rent apartments in Madrid.
