Portrait de Georges Rivière

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Portrait de Georges Rivière
signed 'Renoir.' (upper right)
oil on canvas
12 5/8 x 9½ in. (32.1 x 24.1 cm.)
Painted in Cagnes, Spring 1909

Provenance

Georges Rivière, Paris (acquired from the artist).
Hélène Rivière, Viroflay (by descent from the above).
Edmond Renoir fils, Viroflay (nephew of the artist; by marriage to the above).
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, 2 December 1981, lot 9. Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.

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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Lot Essay

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 de Renoir being prepared by Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville published by Bernheim-Jeune.

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