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While the whole internet might be focusing on what they were up to in 2016, you’ll have to go back another 10 years or so to reach the last time the National Gallery dedicated an exhibition to Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Now, they’ve decided the time is right, and have announced Renoir And Love will arrive at the space from October 3, 2026, showing off a huge collection of works by the French impressionist painter.
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Those attending the exhibiton will view the the biggest collection of Renoir’s work in the UK since the last National Gallery run in 2007. It’s made up of a series of loans of his classic painting, which includes his seminal Bal au Moulin de la Galette (1876), which usually lives in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. It marks the first time this work has ever gone on display in the UK, so make the most of this chance if you’re into your Renoir.
Renoir And Love has been put together through a partnenship between the d’Orsay and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and focuses on Renoir’s work between the mid-1860s to the mid-1880s. In total, there will be more than 50 works at the exhibition,
Speaking on the exhibition, co-curator Christopher Riopelle, the Neil Westreich Curator of Post-1800 Paintings at the National Gallery, says: “More than any of his contemporaries, Renoir was committed to chronicling love and friendship and their informal manifestations as keys to modern life. Whether on Parisian streetcorners or in sun-dappled woodlands, he understood that emotion could be as fleeting, as evanescent, as blinding, as his other great and transitory subject, sunlight itself.”
There is no date yet for when tickets go on sale, but you can sign up on their website to find out when they drop as early as possible.
Renoir And Love opens at the National Gallery on October 3, 2026 and runs until Janaury 31, 2027, and you can find out more details here.