Renoir at the Theatre: Looking at La Loge
The Courtauld Gallery
Extended until 26 May 2008
Renoir at the Theatre: Looking at 'La Loge' will now be open for the spring bank holiday.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's La Loge (The Theatre Box), 1874, is one of the masterpieces of Impressionism and a major highlight of The Courtauld Gallery's collection. Its depiction of an elegant couple on display in a box at the theatre epitomises the Impressionists' interest in the spectacle of modern life.
The exhibition unites La Loge for the first time with Renoir’s other treatments of the subject and loge paintings by his contemporaries, including Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas. Concentrating on the early years of Impressionism during the 1870s, the exhibition explores how these artists used the loge to capture the excitement and changing nature of fashionable Parisian society.
'… the kind of exhibition that The Courtauld Gallery does to perfection. It takes an Impressionist masterpiece from its own incomparable collections and gives it context.' The Daily Telegraph
> find out about the accompanying exhibition French 19th Century Drawings
