"Renoir to Picasso: The Robertson Family Collection" features 17 artworks by world-renowned artists who defined European modern art from roughly the 1870s through the 1940s. During this period, a remarkably creative artistic ferment, especially in France, sparked a revolution in art, the effects of which continue to this day.

The artworks in "Renoir to Picasso: The Robertson Family Collection" exhibit a range of art movements, including Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Cubism. These series of artistic innovations stunned audiences around the world who encountered for the first time vibrant canvases painted out-of-doors using brilliant colors and loose brushwork; intense, subjective color to express feeling; and the use of multiple perspectives to break up the conventional picture plane in ever more abstract compositions.

The exhibition also includes two works from SAMA’s permanent collection. Additionally, works by the American sculptors Alexander Calder and George Rickey and painter Franz Kline, also from the Robertson Family Collection, may be viewed in the second floor Modern and Contemporary galleries.