Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s former family home in Essoyes, France will open to the public as a museum on June 3, following four years of major restoration. It will join Renoir’s studio—already open for 20 ...

The films of Jean Renoir are among the greatest treasures bequeathed by, and to, the cinema, yet many of the best (such as “Toni” and “Picnic in the Grass”) are unavailable on home video or streaming.

It’s not usually the case that you get a sweetener when you buy an item at auction, even when you pay tens of millions of dollars, but Sotheby’s London has a special offer in its March 6 Modern and ...

Last week, a silly group picketed the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, demanding that the museum remove from its walls the high-glucose paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir in favor of more dignified fare.

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 ...

NEW YORK (CNN)-- A Renoir painting looted by the Nazis during World War II has been returned to its rightful owner, New York federal officials announced Wednesday. The painting, "Deux Femmes Dans Un ...

Image of the genuine painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “Two Sisters (On the Terrace)” (1881), which hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago (Public Domain image) Since 1933, Pierre-August Renoir’s ...

When ranting about his profound contempt for Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Max Geller frequently returns to the word “treacle.” The French Impressionist painter’s renderings of bourgeois leisure are ...