Lot 179
  • 179

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR | Faïences décorées

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Faïences décorées
  • stamped Renoir (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 18 by 31.2cm., 7 1/8 by 12 1/4 in.
  • Painted in 1916.

Provenance

Bignou Gallery, New York (acquired by 1935)
Nelle E. Mullen, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA
Sale: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17th April 1969, lot 113
Knoedler Gallery, New York (purchased at the above sale)
Mady Bonnard, Geneva (acquired from the above in 1969)
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 4th May 2011, lot 193
Rau Antiques, New Orleans (purchased at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2011

Exhibited

New York, Bignou Gallery, Renoir, 1935, no. 15

Literature

Barbara Ehrlich White, Renoir, His Life, Art and Letters, New York, 1984, illustrated p. 26 (as dating from circa 1913-15)
Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles1911-1919, Paris, 2014, vol. V, no. 3768, illustrated p. 100

Condition

The canvas is not lined. Examination under UV light reveals scattered spots of retouching predominantly to the white pigment in the background at the left, right and upper edges. There is some minor pigment shrinkage to the thick impasto in the plate to the left of the composition. The edges have been lined with tape which is not visible when framed. Overall this work is in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

This work is accompanied by an Attestation of Inclusion from the Wildenstein Institute, and it will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.