PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR | PORTRAIT DE COCO (CLAUDE RENOIR)

Auction Closed

June 29, 05:15 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR

1841 - 1919

PORTRAIT DE COCO (CLAUDE RENOIR)

Signed Renoir (toward lower left)

Charcoal on paper

22½ by 18¼ in. (57.2 by 46.4 cm)

Framed: 32 by 27¾ in. (81.3 by 70.5 cm)

Executed in 1915.

This work was presented to the Comité Renoir under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc. (WPI) at its virtual meeting in June 2020, held in place of an in-person meeting due to the Covid-19 pandemic and in accordance with associated government regulations on travel and confinement. It will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.

Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin

Gustav Knauer, Berlin

Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm

Private Collection, Scandinavia (acquired from the above in April 1938)

Private Collection, Scandinavia (by descent from the above and sold: Christie's, London, February 8, 2012, lot 284)

Acquired at the above sale

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. I, Paris, 1918, no. 226, illustrated p. 57

Charles Terrasse, Cinquante portraits de Renoir, Paris, 1941, illustrated pl. 36

Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1911-1919, vol. V, Paris, 2014, no. 4413, illustrated p. 467