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Property of a New York Collector

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

La Passerelle d'Essoyes

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

700,000 - 1,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a New York Collector

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919


La Passerelle d'Essoyes

signed Renoir. (lower left)

oil on canvas

18¼ by 21⅞ in.

46.3 by 55.5 cm.

Executed circa 1898-1901.


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, Inc.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie Bignou, Paris
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above on 5 February 1937)
Thomas C. and Emily Adler, New York (acquired by descent from the above)
Sotheby's, New York, 5 November 2004, lot 123 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner
Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. II, Paris 1918, p. 69, illustrated
"Renoir Paintings Never Before Seen in America Placed on View," Art Digest, vol. X, no. 6, December 1935, p. 34, illustrated (titled Poissy: Le Petit Pont)
George Slocombe, Rebels of Art, New York 1939, pl. 13, illustrated (titled Summer)
Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1911-1919, vol. III, Paris 2014, no. 1980, p. 161, illustrated
New York, Bignou Gallery, Renoir, 1935, no. 10 (titled Poissy: Le Petit Pont)
London, Alex Reid & Lefevre Gallery, Corot to Cézanne, 1936, no. 40
Cincinnati Art Museum, 1977-1978 (on extended loan and titled Landscape)