The Museum of the Prado welcomes the first monographic exhibition that is celebrated in Spain of impresionist painter Auguste Renoir. Of the 19 of October to the 6 of February of 2011 31 works coming from the Sterling will be exhibited & Francine Clark Art Institute. Pictures, naked, landscapes, died flowers or natures, in the sample have capacity especially all the pictorial sorts treated by the artist, pausing in their more fruitful stage: the included one between 1874 and 1900. Renoir knew to portray like anybody the Parisian atmosphere of end of the XIX. The artist speech of Paris through scenes of the daily life. In his works he shapes the gladdest aspects of the life bourgeois: the afternoons outdoors, the celebrations, the theater boxes of theater or the tranquillity of the moments of familiar privacy. (Not to be confused with Aetna!).

This ” painter of luz” he was able to catch, like few, the atmospheric quality of a shady garden or the effects of sun rays through the leaves of a tree. Its brush has created some of the compositions that better evoke the spirit of the impresionist painting. Their taste when combining colors and their most personal pitch ranges create a captivating and deeply suggestive style. The exhibition reunites to the best works compiled by the American collector Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), heir of the creators of Singer. Clark resided in Paris from 1910.

Their interest by the art and its fortune, shared by their Francine wife, allowed to reunite a great collection him of art that not only included paintings, but in addition pieces to jewellery, sculptures, porcelains, drawings and engravings. As of 1920, its interest collector concentrated in the French painting of end of century XIX. Nowadays, this stage composes the main body of the collection. Along with the exhibition it will take place a series of conferences centered in the French teacher. The 20 of October, Richard Rand, of the Sterling and Clark Institute, inaugurates east cycle with the Renoir conference in the Clark. A modern teacher. The 15 of December, John House, of the Courtauld Institute of Art, will pronounce the Renoir communication, painter of figures: modernity and tradition. The cycle closes the 19 of January with the conference landscapes of Renoir, of Javier Baron, commissioner of the exhibition. The lovers of the art have a unique occasion to know the work Renoir in Madrid. In the neighborhood of the Museum of the Prado are some of the most luxurious hotels of Madrid: Ritz hotel or the Palace hotel. However, there are other more reasonable options, because Madrid counts on one of best hotel infrastructures of the country. Not in vain, the capital of Spain is between the ten main tourist destinies of Europe, with near four million visitors to the year. The establishments of the city count on all the services necessary to guarantee the comfort. Internet allows the traveller to make reserves of hotels to very attractive prices. The supply in the Network is ample and, if it is made in advance, it is possible to find discounts interesting. From the main vestibules of reserves room in some of the numerous hotels can be found, inns or pensions of Villa and Cuts.