The Barnes Foundation removed a precious Pierre-Auguste Renoir painting from view last year for some much-needed rehabilitation. The Henriot Family (La Famille Henriot), an oil painting completed ...
“The Henriot Family” is now undergoing extensive repair and cleaning in the Barnes’ conservation lab, where deputy director of education and interpretation Martha Lucy saw the painting in a new light.
It’s never too late to get canceled. One of the premier impressionist painters, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, died in 1919, but that won’t stop today’s art critics from revisiting his legacy through their ...
Born on February 25, 1841, in Limoges, France, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was the sixth of seven children in a working-class family. The family moved to Paris in 1844, where he was immersed in the cultural ...
For Jean Renoir (1894-1979), family goes beyond genetics to take on extra resonance. Considered a master of international cinema with “an already illustrious name,” Jean is the second son of ...
Alexandre Renoir grew up hearing the stories his family told about his great-grandfather. He appreciated them, sure, but he was a little kid. It wasn’t until his early teens that he realized the ...
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 ...
President Trump insists he owns a real Renoir painting — but a Chicago museum says the version he has isn’t the real deal. The Art Institute of Chicago said it owns the authentic version of the “Two ...
Two art masterpieces — a self-portrait of 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt and a painting by French impressionist Pierre-August Renoir — stolen from Sweden’s National Museum five years ago have ...
<p>Renoir, Pierre Auguste, b. Limoges, France, 1841; d. 1919. Painter, printmaker, sculptor. One of the founders of the Impressionist movement, Renoir produced some of the group's best-known images, ...