- Shown in: Asia
This first Retrospective Renoir exhibition to be shown in China featured artworks from 14 lenders in Europe and North America. The exhibition also displayed in conjunction artistic photographic works on the theme of olive trees related to the paintings of Pierre Auguste Renoir by Jacques Renoir, the great grandson of the artist.
Highlights of the exhibition included: bringing together a selection of Renoir’s bathers from all major periods culminating in 2 of his late period large format bather paintings, one from the Kunstmuseum Winterthur and one from the National Museum Belgrade; significant portraits such as that of Alice Vallières-Merzbach, landscapes and still-life paintings such as the Garden in Montmartre, and a significant group of Renoir works from the National Museum of Belgrade never before shown together and outside Serbia.
