Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Paysage du midi

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Auction Closed

March 3, 05:01 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private European Collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919

Paysage du midi

signed Renoir (lower right)

oil on canvas

27.2 by 46.3cm., 10¾ by 18¼in.

Framed: 53.2cm by 71.6cm., 21 by 28¼in.

Painted circa 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)

The Leclerc family, France (sold: Mercier & Cie, Lille, 15th December 1996, lot 178)

Sale: Christie's, London, 21st June 2006, lot 203

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, Pastels & Dessins de Pierre Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1919, vol. II, illustrated p.190
Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, Paris, 2012, vol. IV, no. 2914, illustrated p. 141 (titled Le jardin des Collettes à Cagnes)

Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Un demi-siècle de Peinture Française 1900-1950, 1950, no. 105 (titled Paysage)