Sino al 31 maggio, la National Gallery di Londra presenta la prima grande mostra dedicata a Paul Durand-Ruel, il mercante d’arte e gallerista che inventò l’Impressionismo, scommettendo sin dagli esordi sulla pittura rivoluzionaria e antiaccademica di Monet, Pissarro, Degas e Renoir.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Paul Durand-Ruel, 1910. Olio su tela, 65 x 54 cm. © Durand-Ruel & Cie.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dance in the City, 1883. Olio su tela, 180 x 90 cm © RMN-Grand Palais (musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dance at Bougival, 1883. Olio su tela, 181.9 x 98.1 cm © 2014 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881. Olio su tela, 100.4 x 80.9 cm © The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Sleeping Girl, 1880. Olio su tela, 120.9 x 92 cm © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA (photo: Michael Agee)

The Cup of CPierre-Auguste Renoir, The Cup of Chocolate, circa 1877-8. Olio su tela, 100 x 81 cm. Private Collection © Photo courtesy of the ownerhocolate, 1878

Edouard Manet, Music in the Tuileries Gardens, 1862. Olio su tela, 76.2 x 118.1 cm © The National Gallery, London

Berthe Morisot, Woman at Her Toilette, 1875-80. Olio su tela, 60.3 x 80.4 cm © The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

Mary Cassatt The Child’s Bath, 1893. Olio su tela, 100.3 x 66.1 cm © The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, The Ballet Class, circa 1880. Olio su tela, 82.2 x 76.8 cm © Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Horses before the Stands, 1866-8. Olio su carta incollata su tela, 46 x 61 cm © RMN-Grand Palais (musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski

Claude Monet, Poplars in the Sun, 1891. Olio su tela, 93 × 73.5 cm © National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Claude Monet, The Artist’s Garden in Argenteuil (A Corner of the Garden with Dahlias), 1873. Olio su tela, 61 x 82.5 cm © Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Alfred Sisley, The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, 1872. Olio su tela, 49.5 x 65.4 cm © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Paul Cézanne, The Mill on the Couleuvre near Pontoise, circa 1881. Olio su tela, 73.5 x 91.5 cm. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie © Photo Scala, Florence / bpk, Bildagentur für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin / Photo: Klaus Goeken

Claude Monet, The Galettes, 1882. Olio su tela, 65 x 81 cm © Durand-Ruel & Cie.

Edouard Manet, The Salmon, 1869. Olio su tela, 71.8 x 89.9 cm © Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont

Edouard Manet, Moonlight at the Port of Boulogne, 1868. Olio su tela, 81.5 x 101 cm © RMN-Grand Palais (musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski

Charles-François Daubigny St Paul’s from the Surrey Side, 1871-3. Olio su tela, 44.5 x 81 cm © The National Gallery, London

Claude Monet, The Thames below Westminster, circa 1871. Olio su tela, 47 x 73 cm © The National Gallery, London

Camille Pissarro, The Avenue, Sydenham, 1871. Olio su tela, 48 x 73 cm © The National Gallery, London

Camille Pissarro, Fox Hill, Upper Norwood, 1870. Olio su tela, 35.3 x 45.7 cm © The National Gallery, London

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Peasant Girls bathing in the Sea at Dusk, 1869-75. Olio su tela, 65 × 84 cm. Private Collection, Ireland © Photo courtesy of the owner

Germaine Hoschedé, Lili Butler, Joseph Durand-Ruel, Georges Durand-Ruel, Claude Monet al laghetto delle ninfee di Giverny, 1900. Archives Durand-Ruel © Durand-Ruel & Cie.

Grafton Gallery, Londra, 1905. Archives Durand-Ruel © Durand-Ruel & Cie.
























