PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR | LA TASSE ET LES CITRONS (NATURE MORTE AUX CITRONS)

Auction Closed

June 29, 05:15 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Canadian Collection

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR

1841 - 1919

LA TASSE ET LES CITRONS (NATURE MORTE AUX CITRONS)

Signed Renoir (lower left)

Oil on canvas

5⅝ by 10⅛ in. (14.3 by 25.7 cm)

Framed: 14½ by 18½ in. (36.8 by 47 cm)

Painted circa 1895.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.

This work will be included in the second supplement to the Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles de Pierre-Auguste Renoir being prepared by Guy Patrice Dauberville and Floriane Dauberville.

Please note that this work will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc. as well as in the second supplement to the Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles de Pierre-Auguste Renoir being prepared by Guy Patrice Dauberville and Floriane Dauberville. Please note updated provenance for this lot is available on Sothebys.com

Olga Knyazev, Paris

M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above on September 16, 1952)

Estate of Elwood B. Hosmer, Montreal (acquired from the above on January 3, 1956)

Private Collection, Montreal (acquired from the above)

Thence by descent