Property from an Important Swiss Private Collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Les Voiliers à Cagnes

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Swiss Private Collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919


Les Voiliers à Cagnes

signed Renoir. (lower left)

oil on canvas

18⅛ by 21⅞ in.

46 by 55.6 cm.

Executed circa 1890. 


This work will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital 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 Pierre-Auguste Renoir being prepared by Guy Patrice Dauberville and Floriane Dauberville.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the artist in 1912)
Galerie Raphaël Gérard, Paris 
Private Collection, Geneva (acquired from the above on 15 February 1938)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Ambroise Vollard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Tableaux, pastels et dessins, Paris 1918, no. 1689, p. 348, illustrated
Georgine Oeri, "Basel Renoir. Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle 13. Februar bis 14. März," Werk-Chronik, March 1943, p. IX, illustrated
G. Px., "Vevey Auguste Renoir. Musée Jenisch du 7 juillet au 30 septembre," Werk-Chronik, September 1956, p. 173
André Kuenzi, "Collection Stein," Gazette de Lausanne, 8-9 August 1964, p. 13
Giraudon-Couleurs, Catalogue des photo-couleurs pour l’édition. 1ère partie (peinture-sculpture-objets d’art), Paris 1966, p. 185
René Héron de Villefosse, Les Sources de l’art. La nature, Paris 1966, pp. 256 and 323 
Michel Ferloni and Dominique Spiess, eds., Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Masterworks, New York 1994, p. 262 (dated circa 1888)
Basel, Kunsthalle, Aubusson-Teppiche aus fünf Jahrhunderten: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1943, no. 50, p. 23 
Vevey, Musée Jenisch, Auguste Renoir, 1956, no. 24 (dated 1888)
Paris, Petit Palais, De Géricault à Matisse: Chefs-d'oeuvres français des collections suisses, 1959, no. 116 (dated circa 1888)
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, Die Welt des Impressionismus, 1963, no. 106, p. 28 (titled Segelschiffe bei Cagnes)
Lausanne, Palais de Beaulieu, Chefs d’oeuvre des collections suisses de Manet à Picasso, 1964, no. 64, illustrated (dated circa 1888)
Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Chefs d’oeuvre des collections suisses de Manet à Picasso, 1967, no. 63

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