Renoir - Theatre

Renoir at the Theatre is the latest in the Courtauld Gallery’s exemplary series of exhibitions based round a single picture from the institution’s own collections. It might be a small show, but it goes straight to the whirling heart of Impressionism. The painting under consideration is La Loge (’The Theatre Box’) by Renoir, which he exhibited at the very first Impressionist exhibition, in 1874. It is, in essence, a painting about looking and being looked at in the melee of the modern world.

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