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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 established from the archives of François Daulte, Durand-Ruel, Venturi, Vollard and Wildenstein.
This work will be included in volume V or subsequent volumes of the Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, being prepared by Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville published by Bernheim-Jeune.
In later years, Renoir would devote himself increasingly to landscapes, such as the present composition, depicting the environs of Cagnes. In this vein, John House has written: "around 1900 the patterns of Renoir's life changed again: from then until the end of his life he and his family spent long periods each winter and spring on the Mediterranean coast and much of the summer at Essoyes, where they now owned a house, with only limited spells in Paris. From 1903 onwards, in the south they went always to Cagnes, just west of Nice, where in 1907 they bought land and began to build a house. The immediate reason for these changes was Renoir's health...but they reflected a more general change in his art, towards the Classicism of the Mediterranean and, more particularly, towards ideas then associated with the revival of Provençal culture...Renoir first gained real fame during those years. He became Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1900, but it was the retrospective of his work included in the 1904 Salon d'Automne which sealed his reputation" (Renoir, New York, 1985, pp. 268-269).
This work will be included in volume V or subsequent volumes of the Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, being prepared by Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville published by Bernheim-Jeune.
In later years, Renoir would devote himself increasingly to landscapes, such as the present composition, depicting the environs of Cagnes. In this vein, John House has written: "around 1900 the patterns of Renoir's life changed again: from then until the end of his life he and his family spent long periods each winter and spring on the Mediterranean coast and much of the summer at Essoyes, where they now owned a house, with only limited spells in Paris. From 1903 onwards, in the south they went always to Cagnes, just west of Nice, where in 1907 they bought land and began to build a house. The immediate reason for these changes was Renoir's health...but they reflected a more general change in his art, towards the Classicism of the Mediterranean and, more particularly, towards ideas then associated with the revival of Provençal culture...Renoir first gained real fame during those years. He became Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1900, but it was the retrospective of his work included in the 1904 Salon d'Automne which sealed his reputation" (Renoir, New York, 1985, pp. 268-269).