The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest opened an exhibition including 70 works of French Impressionist giant August Renoir on Thursday.
The exhibition will run through January 7. In his greeting screened at the opening, Culture and Innovation Minister János Csűk said Renoir’s art “helps people find their harmonic place in the universe, and in their wider and smaller community.”
Claire Bernardi, the director of the Musee del’Orangerie in Paris, said that besides being the first Renoir exhibition of this scale in Hungary, the show was also the first time Renoir’s famous Reclining Nude (Gabrielle) would be shown in the same space with two paintings “originally born as its twins”, on loan from the Musee del’Orangerie and the Musee d’Orsay.
The Budapest museum’s director, László Baán, called the purchase of “Gabrielle” the museum’s most valuable acquisition in the past 100 years.
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Here is a timelapse video about the preparations for the opening:
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Experience it, take it all in, sit back, stand back, stare glare at it, don’t rush, picture it, place your-self in the themes of his paintings, the “messages” captured / contained the stories, through the brush of Renoir, in his works – Masterful.
The clarity of his work, details captured, colours his use of light & shade, bringing his work alive, that you could imagine exampled, you to are Lunching at the Boathouse Party.
Magnificent and EDUCATIONAL.