February 7, 2012
Renoirs reunited at the Frick Collection
The Frick Collection today opened an exhibition of nine full-length paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir including “La Promenade” and eight works on loan.
Situated all in one gallery at the museum, The Frick is selling timed-entry tickets for the exhibition.
Renoir, the son of a tailor and a dressmaker, was something of a fashionista, Colin Bailey, the museum’s director and curator of the show, said Monday during a preview of the exhibition.
“The Umbrellas,” which originally was shown in New York City in 1886 as “Rain in Paris” can be viewed as two different paintings, Bailey said. In 1880 or 1881, Renoir started the right side of the canvas as a park scene. Unhappy with his progress, he turned the unfinished canvas to the wall. Only when Renoir’s agent pressed him for more work ahead of the New York show did the artist resume work in 1885 by adding the umbrellas and the figures on the left.
Viewers at the time would have noted that the woman on the left wears the most fashionably tailored clothes in vogue for 1885, Bailey said, while the people on the right were oh-so-1881.
This is “The Umbrellas” first return to New York City since its 1886 debut. It is on loan from National Gallery of London.
Other loans in the exhibition include “The Dancer,” “La Parisienne” and “Dance in the Country.”
“Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting” will be on view through May 13.
The Frick Collection is located at 1 E. 70th St., across the street from Central Park.
Update as of April 27: The museum will offer free admission form 6 to 9 p.m. on April 27 for Renoir Night.
Images provided by the Frick Collection.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir; (1841–1919;) The Umbrellas (Les Parapluies;), c. 1881–85; Oil on canvas; 71 × 45 inches; The National Gallery, London; Sir Hugh Lane Bequest; 1917 Photo: © The National Gallery, London / Art Resource, NY
Pierre-Auguste Renoir; (1841–1919;) The Dancer, 1874; Oil on canvas 56 1/8 × 37 1/8 inches; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Widener Collection Photo: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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February 7, 2012 4:02 PM in Museums, Upper East Side
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