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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection I Provenant d'une Prestigieuse Collection Particulière

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Les Amoureux

Lot Closed

December 5, 02:17 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919

Les Amoureux


signed Renoir (lower left)

sanguine and white chalk on paper mounted on canvas

81,2 x 64,4 cm; 31⅞ x 25 ⅜ in.

Executed in 1885.


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

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Provenant d'une Prestigieuse Collection Particulière

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919

Les Amoureux


signé Renoir (en bas à gauche)

sanguine et craie blanche sur papier marouflé sur toile

81,2 x 64,4 cm; 31⅞ x 25 ⅜ in.

Exécuté en 1885.


Cette œuvre sera incluse dans le Catalogue Raisonné digital de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, actuellement en préparation sous l'égide du Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc. 

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist before 1919)

André Martinais, Paris

Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 28 May 1954, lot 24 (consigned by the above)

Lucile Martinais, Paris (as of 1971)

Galerie Schmit, Paris (as of 1979)

Private collection, France (acquired from the above in 1979)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Tokyo, Galerie Seibu; Fukuoka, Cultural Center and Kobe, Prefectural Museum of Art of Hyogo, Retrospective Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1971-1972, no. 55, illustrated

Paris, Galerie Schmit, Maîtres français, XIXe-XXe siècles, 9 May - 10 July 1979, no. 106, p. 110, illustrated in colour (with incorrect dimensions)

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. I, Paris, 1918, no. 516, p. 130, illustrated

Ambroise Vollard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Paintings, Pastels and Drawings / Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins, (rev. ed.), San Francisco, 1989, no. 516, p. 130, illustrated

Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue Raisonné des Tableaux, Pastels, Dessins et Aquarelles, vol. II, Paris, 2009, no. 1573, p. 544, illustrated (with incorrect dimensions)