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Current Exhibitions
July 13, 2023 - July 31, 2024
Palm Desert, CA
September 12, 2022 - June 30, 2024
Palm Desert, CA
2024
January 10 - March 17, 2024
Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens - West Palm Beach, FL
2023
2022
January 12, 2022 - January 31, 2023
Palm Desert, CA
February 1, 2022 - February 28, 2023
Palm Desert, CA
2021
August 3, 2021 - January 31, 2022
Palm Desert, CA
2019
2018
“To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.” – Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Top Pastel Results at Auction
“La Lecture” (1889), pastel on paper, 31 7/8 x 25 5/8 in. Sold at Sotheby’s New York: 08 May 2007 for $5,024,000 USD
“Portrait de Cézanne” (1880), pastel on paper, 21 x 17 in. Sold at Sotheby’s New York: 02 May 2012 for $4,226,500 USD
“Portrait de Madeleine Adam” (1887), pencil and pastel, 21 x 17 in. Sold at Sotheby’s New York: 09 May 1989 for $2,860,000 USD
Comparable Works Sold at Auction
“Portrait de Jeanne Samary” (1880), pastel on paper, 23 3/4 x 18 1/2 in. Sold at Christie’s New York: 04 May 2011 for $1,106,500 USD
“Portrait de bébé” (1878), pastel on paper, 21 x 16 3/4 in. Sold at Christie’s London: 21 June 2011 for $936,790 USD
“Jeune fille de profil”, pastel on paper, 16 x 12 1/4 in. Sold at Christie’s Paris: 01 December 2008 for $882,315 USD
Works on Paper in Museum Collections
“Portrait of Séverine” (1885–87), charcoal and unfixed pastel on paper, 23 1/2 x 18 1/4 in., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
“Splashing Figure” (Study for “The Large Bathers”) (1884/85), Red, white, and black chalk, with stumping, and black Conté crayon on tan wove (tracing) paper, laid down on canvas, 39 x 25 in., The Art Institute of Chicago
“Untitled” (1890), opaque red and white chalk on paper, 15 1/4 x 12 in., The British Museum, London
“A Girl Reading”, charcoal on paper, 24 11/16 x 19 1/8 in., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
“There is something in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is the essential. You come to Nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.” – Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Image Gallery
Museum Exhibitions
“Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. January 21 – April 26, 2009
“Renoir: The Body, The Senses” at Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. October 27, 2019 – January 26, 2020
“Renoir: Intimacy” at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. October 18, 2016 to January 22, 2017