Is Late Renoir Really Bad Renoir?

“Here’s the contested rap on Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Following success at the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874, when he was 33, plus another decade’s worth of heady achievement, his paintings went steadily downhill.” After seeing a new exhibition at LACMA, Christopher Knight concludes: “Conventional wisdom is confirmed, not denied. Late Renoir is mostly bad Renoir.”