Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Property from the Estate of Irene Korhumel In 1950 our parents decided on the country life and bought a beautiful and historic country estate named Whippoorwill Farm in Lake Forest, Illinois. Situated in a bucolic setting west of the town proper, and about thirty miles north of downtown Chicago, it encompassed forty manicured acres of main house, stables, guest cottage, and both pasture and forest land. Included were outlying buildings such as a green house, dog kennels for forty, a half mile black cinder riding circuit, and extensive flower and vegetable gardens. A true gentleman's farm, it was an idyllic setting in which to raise three children. As well as being enjoyed by the family, the riding path was open to neighbors and was used by Adlai Stevenson and his house guests, including Eleanor Roosevelt and other notables. This move to the Farm marked the beginning of Newton and Irene's long-term art collecting, which was most aggressively pursued in the 1950s and 1960s, but continued until their passing in 2001 and 2010. They became personal friends with the American artist Hovsep Pushman and assembled a sizeable collection of his paintings and prints. Over time, they also acquired a Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a Pablo Picasso, a major collection of Flora Danica porcelain, Dorothy Doughty birds and many works from other collecting categories. During frequent visits to London, for example, they bought marvelous English furniture from some of the most prominent British dealers of the period, such as Mallett and Jeremy. All of the art was displayed in the main house and served as a warm and wonderful backdrop for our family life, and we enjoyed living with these things over the past sixty years. As these objects go on to a new generation of collector, we hope that the new buyers and their families enjoy them as much as we did. --Lee A. Korhumel
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Paysage près de Cagnes

细节
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Paysage près de Cagnes
signed 'Renoir.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
14 x 18¼ in. (35.6 x 46.4 cm.)
来源
Redfern Gallery, London.
Acquavella Galleries, New York.
Irving H. Vogel, Philadelphia; Estate sale, Hammer Galleries, New York, 12 March 1956, lot 14.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.

荣誉呈献

David Kleiweg de Zwaan
David Kleiweg de Zwaan

拍品专文

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 volume V or subsequent volumes of the Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, being prepared by Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville published by Bernheim-Jeune.

In later years, Renoir would devote himself increasingly to landscapes, such as the present composition, depicting the environs of Cagnes. In this vein, John House has written: "around 1900 the patterns of Renoir's life changed again: from then until the end of his life he and his family spent long periods each winter and spring on the Mediterranean coast and much of the summer at Essoyes, where they now owned a house, with only limited spells in Paris. From 1903 onwards, in the south they went always to Cagnes, just west of Nice, where in 1907 they bought land and began to build a house. The immediate reason for these changes was Renoir's health...but they reflected a more general change in his art, towards the Classicism of the Mediterranean and, more particularly, towards ideas then associated with the revival of Provençal culture...Renoir first gained real fame during those years. He became Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1900, but it was the retrospective of his work included in the 1904 Salon d'Automne which sealed his reputation" (Renoir, New York, 1985, pp. 268-269).