Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (possibly)
Sam Salz, New York
Marina Salz, New York (a gift from the above)
Sale: Christie's, New York,  9th May, 2000, lot 306
Purchased at the above sale by the late owner

Vienna, Albertina Museum, Goya bis Picasso. Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2005, no. 57, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1918, vol. II, illustrated p. 151
Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1882-1894,  Paris, 2009, vol. II, no. 1627, illustrated p. 576 (as dating from circa 1890)

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, and t-hinged to the mount in two places along the upper edge. The sheet is slightly time-stained. There are two artist's pinholes to the lower left and right corners and a minor foxing mark to the right of the tree. Otherwise, this work is in overall good condition.
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