The Museo del Prado extending the exhibition “A Passion for Renoir”

MADRID – Commissioned by Javier Baron, Chief of Department of Painting of the XIX century the Prado, and Richard Rand, Chief Curator of Clark Art Institute, the exhibition presents for the first time in Europe thirty-one artist works from private collections preserved in Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Mass.).

Since opening last October, Passion for Renoir, sponsored by Fundación BBVA, has become one of the most visited exhibitions of the art scene in Madrid.

Therefore, and in view of the massive influx, the Museo del Prado decided as a first resort to visit volumetric system, consisting of small groups by reservation, with admission every 15 minutes.

The second measure, applied since early this December, was the museum’s public opening on Monday, the day usually closed.
Thanks to the outstanding loan of almost all of the collection on display together for the first time outside the Clark Institute, the exhibition shows the breadth and interest Renoir proposals through the most important stages of his career, between 1874 and 1900, in the main genres he cultivated: the portrait, the female figure, nude, landscape, still life and flowers.

Pierre - Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919). "At the concert" (1880). The Clark, Williamstown, MA, USA

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