Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Etude pour Oedipe

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Etude pour Oedipe
signed 'Renoir' (upper left)
oil on canvas
7 ½ x 5 ¼ in. (19.3 x 13.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1895

Provenance

(possibly) Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Wally Findlay Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1978.

Literature

A. Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1918, vol. II, p. 43 (illustrated).
G.-P. and M. Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, Paris, 2010, vol. III, p. 250, no. 2150 (illustrated; titled Personnage mythologique).

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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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