Philadelphia, PA – Late 19th-century French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir worked until his death in 1919. WRTI's Susan Lewis explores LATE RENOIR, an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which makes the case that artworks created by Renoir during the final decades of his career were among his finest, and a model for future generations.
'LATE RENOIR' Explored at Philadelphia Museum of Art
![Girl in a Red Ruff, 1896 Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French Oil on canvas Bequest of Charlotte Dorrance Wright, 1978](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/670357a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/160x197+0+0/resize/880x1084!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fwrti%2Ffiles%2F201203%2F3324941-350817931.jpg)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French
Oil on canvas
Bequest of Charlotte Dorrance Wright, 1978