The Musée Renoir, formerly known as the Domaines des Collettes was the home of August Renoir for the last twelve years of his life. Situated in an immense garden of three hundred year old olive trees and offering superb panoramic views, the museum still looks like a private home.

Although Renoir was more famous for his impressionistic paintings, in Cagnes he experimented with sculpture. This "Cagnes period” was marked by sculpture, an art form he explored alongside his friend Richard Guino, a Catalan artist. The museum has 20 portrait busts and portrait medallions, most of which depict his wife and children. The Renoir Museum, according to its curators, has the largest collection of Renoir sculpture in the world. In honor of Renoir work as a sculptor, the vast gardens of the Renoir Museum were the site of the 2002 biannual of contemporary sculpture, curated by Michel Gaudet. It featured the work of over twenty regional and international artists.

Thé: une ceremonie de l'infusion was a site-specific installation for the 2002 biannual completed with a grant from the One World Foundation.

Left: Article about tea ceremony in the local French newpaper. Ceremonies were held over the last two weeks of the exhibition. Various local dignitaries attended on different days. Pictured here, Jacque Renoir, the grandson of August Renoir.