Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Enfants jouant à la balle [Children Playing Ball], c. 1900. Private Collection. Photo: Richard Nicol

TACOMA, WA.- Tacoma Art Museum presents a comprehensive collection of French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s etchings and lithographs created during the last three decades of his life. Drawn from a local private collection, this body of work constitutes Renoir's entire known graphic works. The public opening for Renoir as Printmaker: The Complete Works, 1878-1912 will be January 17, 2008—during FREE Third Thursday’s ArtWalk from 5 to 8 pm. The exhibition will remain on view through June 29, 2008.

This collection is generously and anonymously being lent by a local collector only to Tacoma Art Museum . The exhibition includes all twenty-five etchings and thirty-five lithographs Renoir created during his lifetime, as well as multiple states of many images. The exhibition is supplemented with a small selection of Renoir’s paintings, including Têtes de deux jeunes filles [also known as The Two Sisters], from Tacoma Art Museum 's collection.

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