Tulipes

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Tulipes
oil on canvas
6 7/8 x 7 1/8 in. (17.4 x 18 cm.)
Painted in 1912

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris, by whom acquired from the artist before 1919, and thence by descent.
Galerie Nichido, Tokyo.
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1989.

Literature

A. Vollard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins, Paris, 1918, no. 616, p. 156 (original state illustrated).

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Sale Room Notice

Please note, the correct medium for this painting is oil on canvas and not oil on canvas laid down on panel as stated in the printed catalogue.

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Lot Essay

This work will be included in the forthcoming Pierre-Auguste Renoir Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.

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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