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.

Earlier this year, a woman in Pennsylvania bought a nude charcoal sketch for $12 at a local art auction. Something about the depicted woman’s downward gaze, the hang of flesh around her waist seemed ...

What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bitesbrings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...

Who doesn’t have a problem with Pierre-Auguste Renoir? A tremendously engaging show that centers on the painter’s prodigious output of female nudes, “Renoir: The Body, the Senses,” at the Clark Art ...

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 ...

For the first time in more than a century, an exhibition dedicated to the lesser-known paper-based works of famed French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir has opened to the public. About 100 ...

Move over, water lilies—this fall it’s Renoir’s sketchbook that’s stepping into the spotlight. The Morgan Library & Museum is about to do something no New York institution has attempted in more than a ...

Renoir's home in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in the South of France, was a source of inspiration (The Farm at Les Collettes, 1914). Bequest of Charlotte Gina Abrams, in memory of her husband, Lucien Abrams, 1961 ...

The early works of the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) are almost universally admired. So what to make of his later works? Martha Teichner examines an art world controversy: The art ...

The fact that paintings by renowned French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir are hanging in the museum. In April, Geller started a petition on the White House website urging President Obama ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “Young Woman Braiding Her Hair (1876), oil on canvas, 22 1/16 × 18 1/8 inches, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection (all images courtesy The Clark ...