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Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leaders of the Impressionist school of painting, established in 1874 by a group of French artists, whose loose brushwork and brightly colored paints created a sense of spontaneity and modernity. And now, 150 years later, he will return to the spotlight this fall.
“Renoir Drawings,” a major traveling exhibition of over 100 of his drawings and other works, created using mediums including pencil, pen and ink, chalk, pastel, watercolor, etching and lithography, will be on display at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York from October 17 to February 8, 2026, and then at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris from March 17 to July 5, 2026.
Although Renoir’s landscapes and portraits — of the French countryside and high society — are legendary worldwide, his drawings of these subjects are not well-known, particularly to the public. One reason: The last major exhibition of Renoir’s drawings took place at the Galeries Durand-Ruel in Paris in 1921.
"The Great Bathers," an oil on canvas piece created between 1886–87, is one of Renoir's
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