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Property from a Private Collection, Japan

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Buste de jeune fille

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Japan

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919


Buste de jeune fille

signed Renoir (lower right)

oil on canvas

12⅜ by 11 in.

31.5 by 28 in.

Executed circa 1886.


This work will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired by 1908)
Robert de Galéa, Paris (acquired after 1939)
Galerie Mouradian et Vallotton, Paris
Mitty Goldin, Paris
Mme. Goldin, Paris (acquired by descent from the above in 1956)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 28 November 1985, lot 42 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Estate of Mme. Goldin, France (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Geneva
Sotheby's, London, 25 March 1986, lot 6 (consigned by the above)
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Harris, England (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's, London, 26 June 1990, lot 11 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Japan (acquired from the above)
Acquired by descent from the above by the present owners
Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. II, Paris 1918, p. 49, illustrated
Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. IV, Paris 2012, no. 3337, p. 388, illustrated (titled Tête de jeune fille and dated circa 1905)