Jacques Renoir, great-grandson of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, attends the exhibition's opening.
The paintings are now scattered among some 20 museums worldwide, according to Teit Ritzau, the CEO of UEG ADM, a Danish company which specializes in traveling exhibits, and which is helping run the ongoing Renoir exhibition.
The one-off copies were made more than a decade ago for a film about Renoir's life by his great-grandson Jacques Renoir, a film director and photographer.
The great-grandson, who attended the exhibition opening, tells China Daily that the Renoir family were authorized by related museums to make these copies of the original paintings.
Jacques Renoir's black-and-white photos of Les Collettes are also on show.
The past five years have seen many "Western art masters' shows" organized and funded by the mainland's private sector. The exhibitions, which introduce the art of household names in impressionism and modernism to audiences in major cities, attract large crowds.
In the past, such exhibitions were held mostly by national museums in Beijing. But now, companies that boast abundant capital are venturing into this growing market that is satisfying a public craving for quality art products.
Yan says he hit upon the idea to bring more Western artworks to China after he staged two Homage to Masters exhibitions during the Nanjing International Art Festival, an annual event staged since 2014.
