We are an official corporate sponsor of the exhibition "Renoir: Tradition and Innovation" being held from Jan. 20, 2010 and are making a picture record of this exhibition.

This exhibition categorizes the attractions of Renoir's artwork into four areas, "the journey to Renoir, expressions of the body, flowers and decorative painting, and fashion and the Rococo tradition", and is designed to look for the attractions of Renoir's paintings from a refreshing perspective of art history through approximately 80 of his workpieces including some masterpieces, while introducing the latest knowledge of the techniques used by the painter Renoir based on the optical survey conducted for this exhibition.

The schedule for "Renoir: Tradition and Innovation" is shown below.

•January 20 to April 5, 2010 The National Art Center, Tokyo
•April 17 to June 27, 2010 The National Museum of Art, Osaka
*Touring Exhibition