PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR | Étude de nus - fragment

Private Collection, France
Sale: Sotheby's New York, 5th November 2009, lot 231
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels & dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1918, vol. II, illustrated as part of a larger canvas p. 61
Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1903 - 1910, Paris, 2012, vol. IV, no. 3164, illustrated p. 285

The canvas is lined. UV examination reveals an old line of retouching along the upper edge associated with previous framing and another old area of retouching to the lower right corner. The leftmost figure has been retouched in places with pigment which does not fluoresce under UV light. There are lines of brown tape visible along all four edges. Otherwise this work is in good overall condition and might benefit from a light clean.
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This work is accompanied by an Attestation of Inclusion from the Wildenstein Institute, and it will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.