{"id":170119,"date":"2025-09-20T17:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170119\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T17:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:38:10","slug":"renoirs-rare-drawings-go-on-view-at-the-morgan-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170119\/","title":{"rendered":"Renoir\u2019s Rare Drawings Go on View at the Morgan Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

Move over, water lilies\u2014this fall it\u2019s Renoir\u2019s sketchbook that\u2019s stepping into the spotlight. The Morgan Library & Museum<\/a> is about to do something no New York institution has attempted in more than a century: dedicate an entire exhibition to Pierre-Auguste Renoir\u2019s works on paper.<\/p>\n

\u201cRenoir\u2019s drawings reveal an artist of tremendous sensitivity and range,\u201d said Colin B. Bailey, the Morgan\u2019s director and curator of the show. And he\u2019s not exaggerating. Opening October 17, Renoir Drawings<\/a>\u00a0will bring together more than 100 works\u2014pastels, watercolors, prints and even a plaster sculpture\u2014offering a rare chance to see the Impressionist master beyond his sun-dappled oils.<\/p>\n

The last time anyone staged a show like this was in Paris in 1921, which makes the Morgan\u2019s exhibition a bona fide art-world event. The presentation is organized with the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, where it will travel next summer, and it spans the artist\u2019s full career. Expect everything from the academic figure studies of his student years to quick on-the-spot impressions of city life, intimate sketches of his wife and children and preparatory studies for some of his most ambitious canvases.<\/p>\n

One highlight: the Morgan\u2019s own large-scale sketch for The Great Bathers (1886\u201387), acquired in 2018, which will be shown alongside the finished painting, on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, plus seven other related drawings. Another crowd-pleaser, Dance in the Country (1883), gets the same treatment with its own suite of preparatory works. Together, these pairings reveal Renoir\u2019s habit of circling a subject from every angle before committing brush to canvas.<\/p>\n

The exhibition also dips into Renoir\u2019s illustrations for \u00c9mile Zola\u2019s L\u2019Assommoir and the periodical La Vie moderne, underscoring how the artist adapted his hand to the printed page. And in a poignant coda, visitors will encounter The Judgment of Paris (1914), a plaster sculpture made in collaboration with Richard Guino, created after arthritis had robbed Renoir of the use of his hands.<\/p>\n

To round things out, the Morgan is programming concerts, talks, and even a watercolor workshop\u2014because if Renoir could churn out sketches between arthritis flare-ups, surely you can manage a few brushstrokes.<\/p>\n

Renoir Drawings runs October 17, 2025, through February 8, 2026, at the Morgan Library & Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Move over, water lilies\u2014this fall it\u2019s Renoir\u2019s sketchbook that\u2019s stepping into the spotlight. The Morgan Library & Museum…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1029,228,226,227,41833,229,88,41834],"class_list":{"0":"post-170119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-categories-art","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-news-art"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}