Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Property from a Distinguished Japanese Collection
Jeune fille au fichu blanc (Gabrielle)
Auction Closed
June 28, 12:29 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Japanese Collection
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841 - 1919
Jeune fille au fichu blanc (Gabrielle)
signed Renoir (upper right)
oil on canvas
48 by 37.2 cm. 18⅞ by 14⅝ in.
Framed: 62 by 51.5 cm. 24⅜ by 20¼ in.
Executed circa 1902.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired directly from the artist on 18 July 1907)
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (acquired from the above in October 1908)
Ellen H. Henderson, New Orleans (acquired from the above on 9 October 1911)
(possibly) Knoedler & Co., New York
Paul Kantor, Beverly Hills
Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena (acquired from the above on 20 June 1967)
Sotheby’s New York, 13 May 1970, lot 9 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Fletcher Jones, Los Angeles (acquired at the above sale)
Christie’s London, 2 December 1975, lot 29 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Private Collection, UK
Sotheby’s London, 2 December 1981, lot 18 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Christie’s New York, 15 May 1985, lot 29
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Sara Campbell, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, New Haven, 2010, no. 350, pp. 108 and 287, illustrated in colour (titled Young Woman (Gabrielle))
Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles 1903-1910, Paris, 2012, vol. IV, no. 3341, p. 390, illustrated (as dating from 1907)
New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Paintings by Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1908, no. 41 (as dating from 1907)