Resumen de Late Renoir
A review article on the traveling exhibition “Renoir in the 20th century,” shown at the Grand Palais, Paris, from September 23, 2009, to January 4, 2010. Rigorously selected and sensitively installed, this triumphant exhibition surveyed almost 30 years of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's production in all media, containing nearly 98 works by Renoir that were supplemented in Paris by 27 pieces by his younger acolytes. The curators succeeded in bringing together exemplary and representative works in almost every category that preoccupied Renoir in the last three decades of his life. However, while their decision to avoid the innumerable fragmentary works that Renoir made compulsively from the 1890s onward was understandable, the absence of a room devoted to still-life painting proved a more serious shortcoming.
