La Roche-Guyon et Etudes de tête et de buissons

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
La Roche-Guyon et Etudes de tête et de buissons
signed with initial 'R' (lower right)
pen and brown and black inks and pencil on paper
12 3/8 x 18 7/8 in. (31.4 x 48 cm.)
Drawn in 1885-1886

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, June 1950.

Literature

A. Vollard, La vie et l'oeuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1919, p. 25 (partial sheet illustrated; titled Paysage).
J. Rewald, Renoir Drawings, New York, 1946, p. 21 (partial sheet illustrated, pl. 52).
G.-P. and M. Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, Paris, 2009, vol. II, p. 559, no. 1597 (partial sheet illustrated).

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Lot Essay

This work will be included in the second supplement to the Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles de Renoir being prepared by Guy-Patrice and Floriane Dauberville, published by Bernheim-Jeune.

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