Optimara variety belonging to the Artist's Palette series. Named for the French impressionist painter, Auguste Renoir. Large, standard African Violet (4-inch pot size) with single, bi-color flowers. Flowers are pink with purple splashes. Leaves are medium green. Introduced 1997. More information.

French painter originally associated with the Impressionist movement. His early works were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling colour and light. By the mid-1880s, however, he had broken with the movement to apply a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings, particularly of women (e.g. , Bathers, 1884-87).

French impressionist painter (1841-1919)