Bouquet de fleurs

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Bouquet de fleurs
stamped with signature 'Renoir.' (Lugt 2137b; lower left)
oil on canvas
18 3/8 x 16½ in. (46.5 x 42 cm.)

Provenance

Estate of the artist.
Joseph Winterbotham, Burlington, Vermont.
The Art Institute of Chicago (gift from the above, 1954); sale, Christie's, New York, 17 May 1983, lot 25.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.

Literature

Bernheim-Jeune, ed., L'Atelier de Renoir, Paris, 1931, no. 634 (illustrated, pl. 198).
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago, A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Chicago, 1961, p. 398.

Exhibited

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Renoir, February-April 1973, no. 89 (illustrated).

Sale Room Notice

Please note the amended Bernheim-Jeune expertise line:
This work will be included in volume V of the Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles de Renoir being prepared by Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville published by Bernheim-Jeune.

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 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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