{"id":78188,"date":"2026-01-05T11:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78188\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:09:07","slug":"philadelphias-barnes-removes-a-prized-renoir-for-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78188\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia\u2019s Barnes removes a prized Renoir for conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy said that was typical of the Philadelphia collector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is very Barnes,\u201d Lucy said. \u201cThat is a strategy. He would pretend that he didn\u2019t want things that he really did want, to try to get the price down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1934, Barnes advised Bignou to find someone who would buy \u201cThe Henriot Family\u201d for $75,000. In 1935, Bignou put it on display, where it was reviewed as \u201creplete with Renoir\u2019s irresistible ability to project his sense of the deliciousness of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barnes then bought the painting for $50,000. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1935\/04\/06\/archives\/barnbs-acquires-two-renoir-works-merion-pa-collector-buys-paintings.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">It was his 175th Renoir<\/a>. He would ultimately own 181.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Henriot Family\u201d is expected to be returned to the Barnes Foundation gallery wall in February. Lucy believes the cleaned and repaired painting will convey a whole new vibe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though we knew the varnish was dirty, you think of it as that color, sort of a warm sunlight,\u201d she said. \u201cBut here, it\u2019s a totally different kind of atmosphere. It\u2019s a totally different kind of day. It feels like it\u2019s midday, or like early morning, rather than a late-afternoon golden sunlight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucy said that was typical of the Philadelphia collector. \u201cThat is very Barnes,\u201d Lucy said. \u201cThat is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6858,13819,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-78188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-barnes-foundation","tag-conservation","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}