A Renoir painting of a seated nude, “The Bather,” sold for $20.9 million at auction, more than twice the expected amount. The painting was one of 66 Impressionist and modern art works auctioned ...

Eighty-one years have passed since the oil painting, “Flowers in a Yellow Vase,” by renowned French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, was displayed publicly at an art exhibition in New York ...

Descendants of a Lake Forest industrialist have reached a settlement over the ownership of a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir after heirs to a German textile-maker claimed he lost the artwork to Nazi ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This file image released by Potomack Company shows an apparently original painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste ...

PARIS — A rarely seen painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, depicting his son and his nursemaid, was sold for 1.45 million euros ($1.68 million) at an auction held by Drouot on ...

The Japanese owner of a Pierre-Auguste Renoir painting, which was stolen from his home in 2000, was surprised to discover that Sotheby’s in London sold it for more than $1,000,000 in February. The oil ...

A previously unknown work by French impressionist painter Auguste Renoir of his toddler son Jean sold for 1.8 million euros ($2.08 million) at a Paris auction on Tuesday, the Drouot auction house told ...

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 ...

According to a U.S. District Court ruling, a Renoir painting that was stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1951 and recently bought at a flea market still belongs to the museum. Judge Leonie M.

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 ...