Femme en blouse blanche

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Femme en blouse blanche
stamped with signature 'Renoir' (Lugt 2137b; lower right)
oil on canvas
9½ x 8 3/8 in. (24.1 x 21.3 cm.)
Painted in 1907

Provenance

Estate of the artist.
Sir Kenneth Clark, London.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 22 October 1980, lot 56.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1982, lot 15.
(possibly) Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.

Literature

Bernheim-Jeune, ed., L'Atelier de Renoir, Paris, 1931, p. 237, no. 345 (illustrated, pl. 109).

Exhibited

London, The Art Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery and Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Renoir, 1953, no. 26.
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Renoir, Exhibition in aid of The Renoir Foundation, May-June 1956, no. 14.

Sale Room Notice

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue critique of Pierre-Auguste Renoir being prepared by the Wildenstein Institute, as established from the archives of François Daulte, Durand-Ruel, Venturi, Vollard and Wildenstein.

This work will be included in volume III or subsequent volumes of the Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles deRenoir being prepared by Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville published by Bernheim-Jeune.

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