Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Assiette de Provence

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Assiette de Provence
signed 'Renoir.' (upper right)
oil on canvas
8½ x 15 in. (21.6 x 38.1 cm.)
Painted in 1915

Provenance

Lt. Col. James Landon.
Richard Nathanson, London.
Private collection, Berlin.
Anon. sale, Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 12 December 2009, lot 110.
Attila Vigh (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner.

Literature

A. Vollard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins, Paris, 1918, vol. I, p. 71, no. 281 (illustrated; titled Poissons).

Exhibited

Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, L'Exposition d'Art Français Contemporain, February 1947, no. 70 (titled Les Rougets).
Ghent, Cercle Royal Artistique & Litteraire, Exposition de l'Impressionisme, 1947.

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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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