Paysage, le chemin et deux figures

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Paysage, le chemin et deux figures
signed 'Renoir.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
9 1/4 x 18 3/8 in. (23.5 x 46.5 cm.)
Painted in 1917

Provenance

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (no. 11212), by whom acquired directly from the artist on 5 January 1918.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, by 1921.
Leo Stein, Paris.
Gavin Graham Gallery, London, by 1987.
Private collection, Japan, acquired circa late 1980s to early 1990s.

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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.

This work will be included in the second supplement to the Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles de Renoir being prepared by Guy-Patrice and Floriane Dauberville, published by Bernheim-Jeune.

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