Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Paysage du midi

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Paysage du midi
signed 'Renoir' (lower left)
oil on canvas
7 1/4 x 11 3/4 in. (18.3 x 29.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1915

Provenance

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1947 (photo no. 8956).
Anonymous sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, 27 March 1962, lot 95.
Galerie Berri-Saint Honoré, Paris.
Wally Findlay Galleries, Palm Beach, by 1968.
Burton D. Salmon, Tulsa, Oklahoma; sale, Sotheby's New York, 28 November 1973, lot 29.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 9 November 1979, lot 911A.
Private collection, Mexico, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Private collection, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

G. P. & M. Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. V, 1911-1919 & 1er supplément, Paris, 2014, no. 3832, p. 129 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, Wally Findlay Galleries, One Hundred Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masters, 1968 (illustrated p. 46).
Palm Beach, Wally Findlay Galleries, 50 Masters from Renoir to Vlaminck, 1969.

Sale Room Notice

Please note the additional earlier provenance verbally confirmed by the Wildenstein Institute:
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1947 (photo no. 8956).
Anonymous sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, 27 March 1962, lot 95.
Galerie Berri-Saint Honoré, Paris.
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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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