Renoir Drawings

The first comprehensive exhibition in more than a century devoted to the works on paper of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919). The exhibition explores Renoir's engagement with draftsmanship across his long and influential career, bringing together more than 100 drawings, pastels, watercolors, prints, and even a plaster sculpture. The show reveals an artist of tremendous sensitivity and range, documenting everything from academic studies and impressions of contemporary life to formal portraits and sketches of friends and family. Several major paintings will be reunited with and displayed alongside their related drawings to illustrate Renoir's creative process.