Lot 156
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Buste de femme au chapeau du paille
  • Signed with the initial R (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 8 by 6 3/4 in.
  • 20.3 by 17.1 cm

Provenance

Durand-Ruel, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1917)
Private Collection, Switzerland (and sold: Sotheby's, London, December 1, 1965, lot 19)
Stephen Hahn, New York
Private Collection, New York (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 14, 1990, lot 369)
Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Sale: Christie's, New York, May 13, 1999, lot 118
Klabal Gallery, Connecticut
Acquired from the above in October 1999

Literature

Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. V, Paris, 2014, no. 4120, illustrated p. 286

Condition

Canvas is unlined. Edges are reinforced with tape. Canvas undulates slightly. Under UV light no inpainting is apparent. Very good condition.
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