With Flavie Durand-Ruel
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Join us on February 25th – on the 184th anniversary of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s birth – for a webinar featuring Flavie Durand-Ruel of the Durand-Ruel Archives, an incredible resource for art historical research and foundational to our work at the Wildenstein Plattner Institute on the Digital Catalogue Raisonné on Renoir with the long-term collaboration and guidance of Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and, more recently, Flavie Durand-Ruel. We are honored to have her speak on her great-great-grandfather Paul Durand-Ruel’s impact on Renoir’s prolific artistic career as both a friend and as his primary dealer.
Flavie Durand-Ruel has devoted herself to studying the fascinating life of her great-great-grandfather Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922), a visionary and innovative contemporary art dealer. With her uncle Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel, she published the Memoirs of their ancestor with Flammarion in 2014 and 2024. Together, with Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy, they studied the correspondence of Durand-Ruel Father & Sons and artists such as Monet and Cassatt. As Managing Director of the Durand-Ruel Archives in Paris from 2006 until 2017, and of the FDR Fine Arts in Brussels since 2018, she carries out provenance research on works by the École de Barbizon, the Impressionists and the Post-Impressionists, and is also working on the catalogue raisonné on the artist Albert André, a friend of Renoir. She supports her husband Frédérick Mouraux as well at his eponymous Brussels gallery, to promote living, committed artists in a constructive, positive and aesthetic way.