Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Vue de Grasse

Auction Closed

March 7, 03:05 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an English Private Collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919

Vue de Grasse

signed indistinctly Renoir. (lower left)

oil on canvas

18.6 by 24.2 cm. 7 ⅜ by 9 ½ in.

Framed: 41 by 36 cm. 16 ⅛ by 14 ⅛ in.

Executed in 1904-05.

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

This work will be included in the second supplement to the Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles de Pierre-Auguste Renoir being prepared by Guy Patrice Dauberville and Floriane Dauberville.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired before 1919)

Private Collection, United Kingdom

Acquired as a gift from the above in 2009 by the present owner

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, Pastels & Dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. 2, 1918, p. 117, illustrated

London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, Auguste Renoir Paintings, an Exhibition in aid of The Save the Children Fund and Children and Youth Aliyah, 1951, no. 31, p. 6, listed (titled Paysage au dessus de Grasse and dated circa 1910)