Lot 143
  • 143

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Poires et pommes
  • signed Renoir (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 32.4 by 41.3cm., 12¾ by 16¼in.

Provenance

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris & New York
Private Collection (by descent from the above)
Sam Salz, Inc., New York
Donald & Jean Stralem, New York (acquired from the above in April 1957; sale: Sotheby's, New York, 8th May 1995, lot 9)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, 1904
London, Grafton Galleries, Pictures by Boudin... Sisley exhibited by Messrs. Durand-Ruel and Sons of Paris, 1905
New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Renoir Exhibition, 1922
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition de Tableaux Modernes, 1926
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990 (on loan)

Literature

Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, Paris, 2009, vol. II, no. 722, illustrated p. 26

Condition

The canvas is lined. The colours are bright and there is nice impasto on the fruit and drapery. UV examination reveals a few very small scattered specks of retouching in places, mainly to the blue background but also in places to the lower edge. Otherwise, this work is in overall good condition.
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