Michel Bouquet as Pierre Auguste Renoir in the 2012 Gilles Bourdos film “Renoir” (Image via Visión del Cine) Pierre Auguste Renoir, that painter of young doughy women, now takes his turn as the ...

Just as Fashion Week swept over New York, with lithe girls in tomorrow’s ensembles dropped on nearly every downtown block, an exhibition uniting for the first time nine large-scale figure paintings by ...

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 ...

The Côte d'Azur, 1915: Painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir struggles with the loss of his wife, arthritis from old age, and news of his son wounded in the war. Yet when the young Andrée miraculously enters ...

The best movie in New York is playing at the Frick Museum, and it’s by Renoir—not the film director Jean Renoir but his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the artist (or, as he preferred to call himself, ...