An Eye for Impressionism: Property from an Important American Estate
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Bouquet de fleurs à l’éventail
Auction Closed
June 25, 06:56 PM GMT
Estimate
1,200,000 - 1,800,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841 - 1919
Bouquet de fleurs à l’éventail
signed A. Renoir. (lower right)
oil on canvas
67 by 43.9 cm. 26⅜ by 17¼ in.
Executed in 1872.
This work is accompanied by an Attestation of Inclusion from the Wildenstein Institute, and it 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.
Henri Baderou, Paris
Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York (acquired from the above in 1950)
Sita Devi, Maharanee de Baroda, Paris (acquired from the above in 1956)
Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York (acquired from the above in 1958)
Morton Downey, New York (acquired from the above in 1962)
Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York (acquired from the above in 1967)
Private Collection, England (acquired by 1974)
Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York
James Kessler, Naples, Florida (acquired from the above in 1983)
Sam Porter Fine Arts, New York
Acquired from the above in June 1997
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Magic of Flowers in Painting, 1954, no. 60, illustrated (titled Roses in a Vase)
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Olympia’s Progeny. French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, 1965, no. 18, illustrated (titled Fleurs dans un Vase)
London, The Lefevre Gallery, XIX & XX Century French Paintings, 1968, no. 22, illustrated (titled Roses dans un vase)
Cape Town, South African National Gallery, Franse Skilderkuns Rondom 1900 French Paintings of the Turn of the Century, 1974, no. 16 (titled Flowers in a Vase)
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Renoir: The Gentle Rebel, 1974, no. 7, illustrated (titled Roses in a Vase)
Horst Keller, The Great Book of Impressionism, New York, 1980, fig. 110, illustrated in colour (titled Roses in a vase and dated circa 1872)
Gilles Néret, Renoir: 60 chefs-d'œuvre, Fribourg, 1985, no. 8, illustrated in colour (titled Roses dans un vase and dated circa 1872)
Gilles Néret, Renoir: Painter of Happiness: 1841-1919, Cologne, 2001, p. 68, illustrated in colour (titled Roses in a vase)
