Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Tête de jeune fille

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Tête de jeune fille
signed with initial 'R' (upper right)
oil on canvas
6 1/8 x 4 ¾ in. (15.5 x 11.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1900

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Anon. sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 3 December 1957, lot 119.
Wally Findlay Galleries, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1978.

Literature

A. Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1918, vol. II, p. 75 (illustrated).
G.-P. and M. Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, Paris, 2010, vol. III, p. 295, no. 2218 (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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