Etude de femmes

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Etude de femmes
signed 'Renoir' (lower left)
oil on canvas
11 1/2 x 11 7/8 in. (29.1 x 30.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1890

Provenance

Galerie de l'Elysée [Alex Maguy], Paris.
Acquired from the above by the grandfather of the present owner in the 1970s.

Literature

A. Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. II, Paris, 1918 (illustrated pl. 24).
G.-P. & M. Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. II, 1882-1894, Paris, 2009, no. 1026, p. 216 [illustrated in a larger composition; titled 'Etudes (personnages)'].

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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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