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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Statuette - Fragment

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May 4, 01:16 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919

Statuette - Fragment

signed with the initial R (lower right)

oil on canvas

22.3 by 17.8cm., 8¾ by 7in.

Framed: 37.5 by 33cm., 14¾ by 13in.

Painted in 1910.

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.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the artist before 1919)

Robert de Galéa, Paris (by descent from the above circa 1939. Sold by their estate: Christie's, London, 30th June 1987, lot 151)

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Ambroise Vollard, La vie & l'œuvre de Pierre Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1919, illustrated as part of a larger canvas p. 100
Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir. Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1903-1910, Paris, 2012, vol. 4, no. 2837, illustrated p. 104 (titled Statuette)