1. Apparently the elderly Renoir bore Modigliani no malice.

2. Three Renoir paintings will come under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York.

3. The painting, believed to be by Renoir, turned out to be a very clever forgery.

4. Will history rate Picasso above Renoir?

5. The show is stolen by Pierre Renoir, as the ragman Jericho, who goes by many other names, and Gaston Modot, as a wily beggar.

6. I wouldn't know an original Renoir from a copy if it looked me in the face.

7. The antiquarian tried to palm the painting off as a real Renoir.

8. Very handy with a hip flask, but didn't look as if he could tell a Renoir from a Renault.

9. As a close friend and neighbour of the elderly painter, Osterlind used to visit Renoir every day.

10. Many include paintings by famous artists, like French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir and American artist John Singer Sargent.

11. After photographs are scanned and databases checked, the painting is identified as the other Renoir, Jeune Parisienne, stolen nearly five years ago in Sweden.

12. Indeed , he has stated his admiration for the films of Frank Capra , D . W. Griffith , Jean Renoir , and John Ford .

13. The end-credit montage not only contains artwork in the style of many ancient cultures, but also mimics specific artists such as 'Vincent Van Gogh', Georges Seurat, and Auguste Renoir.

14. So, uncomplicatedly, I don't see why it shouldn't also be a painting, a sculpture, a drawing, or a photograph – a Rembrandt, a Rodin, a Renoir or a Rothko.

15. She tried to palm the painting off as a real Renoir.

16. As a young man, the painter Henri Matisse used to pay a weekly visit to the great Renoir in his studio.

17. This year I have spent a lot of time researching the life and work of the great French impressionist, Pierre Auguste Renoir, who died in 1919. and now I have collected several of his works.