Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Paysage de Bretagne

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March 2, 03:45 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 90,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919

Paysage de Bretagne

signed Renoir (lower right)

oil on canvas

17 by 28.9cm., 6⅝ by 11⅜in.

Framed: 50 by 62.2cm., 19¾ by 24½in.

Painted in Brittany circa 1892-94.

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

Please note that this work will be presented to the Wildenstein Plattner Institute shortly after the sale to obtain a letter of inclusion. It will be available to the purchaser immediately thereafter.

Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14th June 1988, lot 99

Private Collection (purchased at the above sale. Sold: Christie's, New York, 15th May 2018, lot 332)

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1918, vol. II, illustrated p. 26

Guy-Patrice & Floriane Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1882-1894, Paris, 2009, vol. II, no. 868. illustrated p. 110