Renoir, Impressionism and Full-length Painting
7 Feb 12 – 13 May 12
Parisienne, 1874
new york. When Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted works such as the Frick’s La Promenade, 1875-76, critics did not care for its scale or subject matter: a fashionable young woman and her sisters.
It took 30 years before collectors really wanted to buy them, says Colin Bailey, the co-curator of this show and the New York museum’s deputy director.
And it took the Frick five years of “begging and explaining” to get institutions to lend nine now-treasured full-length Renoirs, such as Parisienne, 1874, from the National Museum Wales, Cardiff.
The Florence Gould Foundation and Michel David-Weill are among the funders. n J.P.
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)