Reclining Nudes Soon Reunited: First Big Exhibition of Renoir in Hungary
- 13 Sep 2023 6:58 AM
- Hungary Matters
Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s oil-on-canvas The Swing was unwrapped on Tuesday in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts which is getting ready to open the first-ever large-scale exhibition of the French master’s works in Hungary.
“We practically have an embarrassment of choices this time with the number of main titles we have managed to loan for the exhibition,” László Baán, the director of the museum, told reporters at the event.
He noted that with the Hungarian government’s support, the museum had acquired Renoir’s 1903 work Reclining Nude for 12.3 million US dollars in 2019.
Renoir painted two more versions of that work which have never been seen together before, sparking the idea for the museum’s exhibition entitled “Renoir – The Painter and His Models”, Baán said.
In addition to the other versions of Reclining Nude, on loan from the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, around 70 works from over 20 public collections will be on display at the Museum of Fine Arts from September 22.
The works have been insured for around 400 billion forints (EUR 1bn), said Baán. The Renoir show will run until January 7, 2024.
XpatLoop Media Partner
LATEST NEWS IN community & culture