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Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Museo del Prado.

U.S. millionaire Robert Sterling Clark, heir to the fortune of the creators of Singer sewing machines, and Francine Clary, his wife, acquired throughout his life an impressive collection of Impressionist paintings, including 35 works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Now the Museo del Prado explains, until 6 February, 31 of these works, which is the first monographic exhibition devoted to Renoir Spain. A sample that can demonstrate the breadth and interest Renoir proposals through the most important stages of his career, between 1874 and 1900, in the main genres he cultivated: the portrait, the female figure, nude, landscape , still life and flowers.

Impressionist Gardens

About 140 masterpieces divided between the Thyssen Museum and the Fundación Caja Madrid in the exhibition Impressionists Gardens presents a vast tour of the garden theme in painting mid century Until the early nineteenth century XX.

The introduction of exotic plants from Asia, Africa and America as well as the opening of Royal Parks, stimulated in the middle of S. XIX, in France and other European countries a large horticultural movement. Designing gardens became a passion that did not escape the impressionist painters like Monet and Caillebotte.

The Thyssen Museum, the exhibition begins with the precursors of the Impressionist garden and goes to the dedication of Pissarro in the garden.

In the Fundación Caja Madrid, we see the late work of the French Impressionists, the new generation of post-impressionist painters and painting European and American naturalist turn of the century.