Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

La Clairière

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
La Clairière
signed 'Renoir' (lower left)
oil on canvas
12¼ x 11½ in. (31.2 x 29.4 cm.)
Painted in 1885

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Wildenstein & Co., Paris.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, London, 23 March 1986, lot 9.
Noortman Gallery, London.
Recovered by the Art Loss Register and offered on behalf of the insurers.

Literature

A.Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. II, Paris, 1918, p. 6 (illustrated).
G.-P. & M. Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. II, 1882-1894, Paris, 2009, no. 752, p. 44 (illustrated).

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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.

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