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 ...

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 ...

We may know about the artist Louis Wain and the fondness for cats that dominated his work, but it so happens that another feline fan was already including cats in his canvases when Wain was still a ...

Severely crippled by rheumatoid arthritis, 71-year-old painter Pierre- Auguste Renoir agreed in 1912 to one last attempt at walking. But when the doctor lifted him from his wheelchair, Renoir managed ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — A woman who paid $7 for a box of trinkets at a West Virginia flea market two years ago apparently acquired an original painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir without ...