From wednesday 28th octobre 2009 to monday 4th january 2010 From 9:30 to 22:00

Galeries nationales - Grand Palais, Champs-Elysées

This is the first exhibition ever organized that focuses on the Impressionist master’s late career. From 1890 Renoir returned to a more classic way of painting focussing on the female nude and deploying a flowing Rubensian brushwork. His move to Cagnes in the south of France also affected his color which became hotter and richer echoing his need for warmth and vitality at a time when he was increasingly crippled by arthritis. His late paintings had a great impact on the work of younger painters, like Bonnard and Denis but also on Picasso and Matisse, who actually visited him on several occasions during WWI. This a unique opportunity to see some of Renoir’s best late works in a show organized in partnership with two major American museums, LACMA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.