The Japan Times reports that a rare example of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's landscape painting has been loaned by Tokyo's Morohashi Museum of Modern Art to London's National Art Gallery as part of an extensive exhibition of the artist's work that opened to the public last Wednesday. The painting, "Laundry Boat on the Seine, near Paris," captures, in muted tones, the more mundane aspects of 19th century life in the French capital and joins 70, mostly more vibrant, works that have been brought together to track Renoir's exploration of landscape painting. "It's a very rare painting in Renoir's oeuvre because he very rarely used these sorts of brown tones," said Chris Riopelle, the National Gallery's curator of 19th century painting. "To completely compose a picture in browns and blacks and grays as he does here is quite a rarity for Renoir, so we were very concerned to have it here to represent this unexpected aspect of his career."
The art exhibit is the first of its kind to examine the development of the French impressionist's landscapes, with the dull tones of the Japan-loaned picture standing out among the idyllic green scenes -- many of them forest interiors -- to be found in many of the other works on display. "This is a kind of one-off. You don't see him doing it too often," Riopelle said of the somber study of 19th century French working-class life. (For full source and article click the Headline)
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Rare Renoir Art In London
The Japan Times reports that a rare example of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's landscape painting has been loaned by Tokyo's Morohashi Museum of Modern Art to London's National Art Gallery as part of an extensive exhibition of the artist's work that opened to the public last Wednesday. The painting, "Laundry Boat on the Seine, near Paris," captures, in muted tones, the more mundane aspects of 19th century life in the French capital and joins 70, mostly more vibrant, works that have been brought together to track Renoir's exploration of landscape painting. "It's a very rare painting in Renoir's oeuvre because he very rarely used these sorts of brown tones," said Chris Riopelle, the National Gallery's curator of 19th century painting. "To completely compose a picture in browns and blacks and grays as he does here is quite a rarity for Renoir, so we were very concerned to have it here to represent this unexpected aspect of his career."
The art exhibit is the first of its kind to examine the development of the French impressionist's landscapes, with the dull tones of the Japan-loaned picture standing out among the idyllic green scenes -- many of them forest interiors -- to be found in many of the other works on display. "This is a kind of one-off. You don't see him doing it too often," Riopelle said of the somber study of 19th century French working-class life. (For full source and article click the Headline)
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