Richard AubernUPTOWN—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...
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