Auguste Renoir’s masterpiece *A Girl with a Pink and Black Hat* (1891) fully embodies the French Impressionist master’s ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leading figures in Impressionism, one of the most revolutionary movements in the history of art. Along with fellow painters Degas, Monet, Pissarro, and Morisot, ...

A study for “The Judgment of Paris” ca. 1908 in black, red, and white chalk. - The Phillips Collection; Washington, DC/Courtesy The Morgan Library & Museum Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leaders ...

Visitors admire “Still Life with Flowers and Fruit” by Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the “The Impressionist’s Eye” exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) Vincent van Gogh’s ...

When Pierre-Auguste Renoir's three sons donated "The Bathers" to the Musee d'Orsay in 1923, several members of the museum's board of directors, as well as its director, protested the gift. "The ...

Most of us know the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir as an impressionist. "Luncheon of the Boating Party" and "Dance At Bougival" are masterpieces, with many others from the first two decades of his ...

What could the Kimbell Art Museum do to follow its blockbuster Monet exhibition that drew record attendance and unprecedented new memberships? Renoir. But this exhibit isn’t just “same genre, ...

WILLIAMSTOWN - Pierre-Auguste Renoir always seemed to have a lighter-than-air touch. Sometimes too light. Even though he’s one of the most famous French Impressionist painters, some of his ...

Some of the most acclaimed names in art history are identified with Impressionism or Post-Impressionism. So it is hard to imagine that such talented artists in Paris were once mocked for their “tongue ...

France's ambassador to the United States, Gérard Araud, is a fan of 19th-century French painter Frédéric Bazille. But I had a confession to make when I spoke with him about the National Gallery's ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leaders of the Impressionist school of painting, established in 1874 by a group of French artists, whose loose brushwork and brightly colored paints created a ...