Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Jeune femme retenant sa chemise

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Switzerland

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

(1841 - 1919)

Jeune femme retenant sa chemise

signed Renoir (lower left)

pastel on paper mounted on board

24 ½ by 18 ¾ in.

62.3 by 47.7 cm.

Executed in 1879-80.

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

Tadamasa Hayashi, Tokyo and Paris (acquired before 1906)

American Art Galleries, New York, 8-9 January 1913, lot 86 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Alexander Morton, New York

Ralph M. Coe, Cleveland (acquired from the above in 1916)

Ralph T. Coe, Kansas City (acquired by descent from the above in 1959)

Ralph T. Coe Foundation for the Arts, Santa Fe (acquired by descent from the above)

Christie’s, New York, 4 May 2011, lot 15 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonne des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1858-1881, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. 641, p. 602, illustrated (titled Femme demi-nue)

Kansas City, The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, Kansas City Collects: A Selection of Works of Art Privately Owned in the Greater Kansas City Area, 1965, no. 21, n.p., illustrated (titled Portrait of Jeanne Samary?)

Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Renoir, 1979, no. 88, n.p., illustrated in color (titled Portrait de Jeanne Samary)