Lot 117
  • 117

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • TĂȘte de jeune fille dans un paysage
  • watercolour on paper
  • 10.1 by 10.9cm., 4 by 4 1/4 in.

Provenance

Private Collection, France
Private Collection, France (a gift from the above on 20th September 1973)
Faggionato Fine Art, Monte-Carlo
Acquired from the above by the grandfather of the present owner in the late 1980s

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Hopkins & Monte Carlo, Artis Monte-Carlo, Renoir, Dessins et Aquarelles, 1985, no. 7, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Condition

Executed on cream laid paper, laid down on card and floating in the mount. The lower and left edges are unevenly cut and the upper and right edges are deckled. The sheet is slightly time stained from previous mounting and there is a faint vertical crease running across the sheet towards the right edge. Overall this work is in fairly good condition.
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