Renoir: Father and Son / Painting and Cinema: Painting and Cinema

Chief curator Sylvie Patry is a specialist in impressionist and post-impressionist painting. She is Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Collections at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris--where she previously served as curator for more than a decade--and Consulting Curator at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Patry also previously served as Deputy Director for Collections and Exhibitions and Gund Family Chief Curator at the Barnes Foundation. She co-organized the Renoir: Father and Son / Painting and Cinema exhibition for the Barnes with the Musée d'Orsay, along with the participation of the Cinémathèque Française in Paris. She has authored and contributed to numerous books, essays, and exhibition catalogs and has lectured extensively around the world on the topic of nineteenth-century French painting and taught at the École du Louvre, Paris. Patry has published extensively on Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in particular on his late years and on Renoir in the twentieth century. With contributions from Dudley Andrew, Stephane Audeguy, Janet Bergstrom, Augustin de Butler, Olivier Curchod, Anne Distel, Cindy Kang, Margaret Little, Pascal Mérigeau, Monique Nonn, and Matthieu Orléan.