Rue à Villeneuve-les-Avignon

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Rue à Villeneuve-les-Avignon
signed 'renoir' (lower right)
oil on canvas
8 1/2 x 13 in. (21.7 x 33.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1905

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Galerie de l'Art Moderne, Paris.
Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above circa 1950, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 February 2012, lot 393.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.

Literature

A. Vollard, Tableaux, Pastels & Dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1918, no. 125, p. 32 (illustrated).
G.-P. & M. Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. IV, 1903-1910, Paris, 2012, no. 3058, p. 218 (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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