Renoir died in December of 1919 at the age of 78, leaving an estate worth millions of francs – an amount that would have been unthinkable to that poor boy wandering the Louvre seven decades earlier.

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, … ...

obsession with painting flesh. "Renoir often spoke about how he loved models whose skin took the light," Thompson said. "And you get a great sense of a sort of glowing flesh.".

Max Geller led a small crowd in protest of the fact that paintings by renowned French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir hang in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.