Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Paul Bérard, Château de Wargemont, Derchigny (acquired from the artist in 1878)

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 8-9 May 1905, lot 32 (consigned by the above)

M. Beau, Paris (acquired from the above sale)

Maurice Masson, Paris

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 June 1911, lot 33 (consigned by the above)

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the above)

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the above on 1 July 1912)

Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (transferred from the above)

Mrs Nelson Robinson, New York (acquired from the above in 1912)

G. Louise Robinson, New York (acquired by descent from the above by 1937)

Private Collection, Europe

Sotheby's, New York, 11 May 1987, lot 25 (consigned by the above)

Lionel Pissarro, Paris

Private Collection, USA (acquired from the above in 2000)

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2019

Albert André, Renoir, Paris, 1928, pl. 37, illustrated (titled Les lilas and dated 1890)

Julius Meier-Graefe, Renoir, Leipzig, 1929, no. 97, p. 439; p. 95, illustrated (titled Flieder)

George Besson, Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1929, pl. 19, illustrated (titled Les Lilas and dated 1890)

Michel Florisoone, Renoir, London and Toronto, 1937, p. 167; pl. 148, illustrated (titled Lilac)

Michel Drucker, Renoir, Paris, 1944, pl. 61, illustrated (dated circa 1878)

Elda Fezzi, L'opera completa di Renoir nel periodo impressionista 1869-1883, Milan, 1972, no. 326, p. 103, illustrated (titled Lilla in un vaso)

Hervé Oursel, “La donation Masson à Lille,” La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France 1, 1977, pp. 28 and 42 (annexe) 

Elda Fezzi, Tout d’œuvre peint de Renoir, période impressionniste 1869-1883, Paris, 1985, no. 320, p. 102, illustrated

Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1858-1881, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. 32, p. 126, illustrated (titled Les lilas (des lilas dans un pot))

Paris, 251 rue Saint-Honoré, Catalogue de la 7me exposition des artistes indépendants, 1882, no. 145

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., L'Exposition des œuvres de P.-A. Renoir, 1883, no. 64 (titled Lilas)

Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, Collection Maurice Masson, 1911, no. 34 (titled Les lilas)

Berlin, Paul Cassirer, Paul Cassirer. XIII Jahrgang. X. Ausstellung. Sammlung Maurice Masson, 1911, no. 26 (titled Flieder)

Paris, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Exposition d'art moderne, 1912, no. 195 (titled Les Lilas)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, French Painting: From David to Toulouse-Lautrec, 1941, no. 100 (titled Lilacs in a Bowl and dated 1875 or 1878)

New York, Duveen Galleries, Renoir Centennial Loan Exhibition, 1941, no. 18, pp. 40 and 126, illustrated (titled Des Lilas dans un Bol (Lilacs in a Bowl) and dated 1875 or 1878)