LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART PRESENTS 'RENOIR IN THE 20th CENTURY'

THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART (LACMA) PRESENTS RENOIR IN THE 20th CENTURY, AN EXHIBITION FOCUSING ON THE LAST THREE DECADES OF PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR'S CAREER, UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1919. THE EXHIBITION PRESENTS APPROXIMATELY 80 PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND DRAWINGS BY RENOIR, INTERSPERSED WITH SELECT WORKS BY PABLO PICASSO, MATISSE, ARISTIDE MAILLOL AND PIERRE BONNARD, TO ILLUSTRATE THE DEVELOPING AVANT GARDE'S DEBT TO THE OLDER MASTER. THE SHOW OFFERS AN UNPRECEDENTED LOOK AT RENOIR THROUGH THE LENS OF MODERNISM, BRIDGING THE PERCEIVED DIVIDE BETWEEN THE ART OF THE LATE 19th AND 20th CENTURIES. CO-ORGANIZED BY THE REUNION DES MUSEES NATIONAUX, THE MUSEE D'ORSY AND LACMA, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, THE EXHIBITION WILL BE ON VIEW FROM 14.FEBRUARY TO 9.MAY.2010. DURING THE LAST 30 YEARS OF HIS CAREER, RENOIR MOVED FROM IMPRESSIONISM TO AN ART AIMING TO BE DECORATIVE, CONTINUE THE GREAT TRADITION OF EUROPEAN PAINTING, AND BE MODERN, ALL AT ONCE. THE RESULTING PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES BECAME AN ENDURING SOURCE OF INSPIRATION TO A GENERATION OF YOUNGER ARTISTS WHO WERE FEELING THEIR WAY INTO MODERNISM IN THE EARLY 20th CENTURY.
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