Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Fleurs dans un vase

Auction Closed

March 6, 07:55 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919

Fleurs dans un vase

signed Renoir. (lower right)

oil on canvas

55.8 by 46 cm. 21 ⅞ by 18 ⅛ in.

Executed circa 1878.

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 is sold with the original vase as pictured in the composition. The vase remained in Renoir’s collection throughout his life and then passed by descent to his great-grandson, Emmanuel Renoir, before being reunited with the present painting.

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the artist on 30 May 1890)

Paul Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the above by 1913)

Private Collection, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)

Drouot Montaigne, Paris, 27 November 1997, lot 36 (consigned by the above)

Halcyon Gallery, London (acquired circa 2005)

Private Collection, Zurich

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2019

Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. 33, p. 127, illustrated

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Nature Mortes par Monet, Cézanne, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, A. André, G. D’Espagnat, 1908, no. 36

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Quelques œuvres importantes de Corot à Van Gogh, 1934, no. 42 (dated 1888)

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Hommage à Renoir, 1958, no. 9

Munich, Städtische Galerie, Auguste Renoir, 1958, no. 5, p. 63; p. 13, illustrated

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Renoir Intime, 1969, no. 5