Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Esquisse de paysage à l’arbre

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Estimate

55,000 - 75,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Esteemed European Collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919

Esquisse de paysage à l’arbre

stamped Renoir (lower right)

oil on canvas

23.8 by 23.2 cm. 9⅜ by 9⅛ in.

Framed: 40 by 40 cm. 15¾ by 15¾ in.

Executed in 1913-19.

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

Estate of the artist (acquired in 1919 and until 1922)

Galerie Alvaro Barreiro, Paris

Christie’s, London, 29 June 1976, lot 233

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Bernheim-Jeune (eds.), L'Atelier de Renoir, vol. II, Paris, 1931, pl. 152, no. 474, illustrated (titled Esquisse de paysage)

Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1911–1919, vol. 5, Paris, 2014, no. 3800, p. 115, illustrated (titled Esquisse de paysage)