UPTOWN—A large show of works on paper by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is being organized for this October by Colin Bailey, the Morgan’s new director, according to a press release. Among the works to be exhibited at the Madison Avenue museum and research library and former home of J.P. Morgan, will comprise drawings, watercolor, pastel, and prints.
Renoir, who began his career interning at a porcelain painter’s factory—according to the biography Renoir, My Father by his son—has had few exhibits dedicated to his works on paper (not since 1921, just a couple years after his death, according to Richard Whiddington in Artnet), perhaps because he is best known for his painting. He was known as a fast painter, who produced roughly 4,000 paintings, according to Richard Covington in Smithsonian Magazine.
Largely motivated, according to the press release, by a major gift to the museum—The Great Bathers, which will make...
UPTOWN—A large show of works on paper by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is being organized for this October by Colin Bailey, the Morgan’s new director, according to a press release. Among the works to be exhibited at the Madison Avenue museum and research library and former home of J.P. Morgan, will comprise drawings, watercolor, pastel, and prints.
Renoir, who began his career interning at a porcelain painter’s factory—according to the biography Renoir, My Father by his son—has had few exhibits dedicated to his works on paper (not since 1921, just a couple years after his death, according to Richard Whiddington in Artnet), perhaps because he is best known for his painting. He was known as a fast painter, who produced roughly 4,000 paintings, according to Richard Covington in Smithsonian Magazine.
Largely motivated, according to the press release, by a major gift to the museum—The Great Bathers, which will make its New York debut, the exhibition will span the artist’s full career, impressions of urban life, sketches of friends and family, and formal portraits, illuminating his drawing practices.
The Great Bathers (1884 to 1887). Auguste Renoir. Courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The Morgan Library & Museum, expanded in collaboration with Renzo Piano in 2006, celebrated 100 years as a public institution this year with a public party in May and a Beatrix Potter exhibit.
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The exhibit will run from October 17, 2025 through February 8, 2026. The Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Avenue, New York
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