Renoir and Love - A Joyful modernity

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Renoir and Love - A Joyful modernity

Published on March 19, 2026

This exhibition, co-organized with the National Gallery in London and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, reexamines Renoir’s fundamental contributions to impressionism and 19th-century art history through the complex, universal notion of love, the central driving force of his work. It provides a new perspective on paintings that are so well-known that it has become difficult to perceive how radical they are. For the first time since 1985 (the year the last Renoir retrospective was held in Paris, at the Grand Palais), some of the artist’s and impressionism’s greatest masterpieces will be brought together in France.

Taking place at the Musee d’Orsay, Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Paris, France, the exhibition runs from March 17 – July 19, 2026.

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