Lot 140
  • 140

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Paysage à Cagnes
  • stamped R (lower right)
  • oil on canvas laid down on panel
  • 6.5 by 14cm., 2⅝ by 5½in.

Provenance

Thomas Agnew & Sons, London
Sir Hugh Walpole, London
The Swetzoff Gallery, Boston
Sale: Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 7th June 1962, lot 88
Private Collection, United States (sale: Sotheby's, New York, 16th February 1989, lot 1)
Private Collection, United States (purchased at the above sale)
Sale: Christie's, New York, 25th February 2004, lot 12
Sale: Artcurial, Paris, 24th October 2008, lot 249
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Bernheim-Jeune (ed.), L'Atelier Renoir, Paris, 1931, vol. I, no. 106, illustrated pl. 37
 

Condition

Oil on cavas laid down on panel. The panel is sound. There do not appear to be any traces of retouching visible under UV light. This work is in overall very good condition.
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