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...Renoir: Museum of Fine Arts, through January 5, 720-3450 for tickets...
Dominique Bozo, the museum's director, was able to choose from the Picassos the artist had hoarded for himself. In addition, he was given paintings from Picasso's private collection, by such artists as Matisse, Renoir and Miro. As a result of Bozo's freedom to make his own selections, the museum admirably represents almost all major phases of a protean career. Yet there are a few gaps. Picasso was a Spaniard, and the Picasso Museum in Barcelona has most of his very early works. Madrid has the Guernica, which found refuge in the Museum of Modern Art during Francisco...
...Renoir, born in 1841 in Limoges, France, moved to Paris in 1861, where his collaboration with artists like Sisley and Monet led to the founding of the Impressionist movement...
...Renoir's work was exhibited in the first Impressionist show in Paris in 1874; his 1904 retrospective exhibit is generally considered to have solidified his reputation as a painter...
Lodge, a painter himself, said that the Museum tries to have guards on duty who are knowledgeable about art. He said that he admired the exhibit because it portrayed Renoir's career from beginning to end (1860's to 1919), and it showed how his style changed as he associated with Cezanne, Monet, and later artist friends...