Etude d'une statuette de Maillol

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Etude d'une statuette de Maillol
signed with the initials 'AR' (lower left)
oil on canvas
6 3/8 x 5½ in. (16.2 x 14 cm.)
Painted circa 1907

Provenance

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (no. 7821).
Sam Salz Inc., New York.
Mr & Mrs René Gaffé, New York, by whom acquired from the above in October 1953; their sale to benefit UNICEF, Christie's, New York, 6 November 2001, lot 25.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

A. Vollard, Tableaux, pastels & dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. II, Paris, 1918, p. 42 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

This painting will be included in the forthcoming Renoir catalogue critique being prepared by the Wildenstein Institute and established from the archive funds of François Daulte, Durand-Ruel, Venturi, Vollard and Wildenstein.

This painting 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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