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Property from an Important European Collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

La Petite pêcheuse, Marthe Bérard

Auction Closed

November 19, 11:13 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important European Collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir  

1841 - 1919 

 

La Petite pêcheuse, Marthe Bérard

signed Renoir. and dated 79. (lower right)  

oil on canvas 

24 by 18 ⅛ in.  

61 by 46 cm.

Executed at Château de Wargemont in 1879.


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

Madame de la Perrière, Paris (acquired as a gift from the artist in 1879) 

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired by 1919)

Henri Canonne, Paris (acquired from the above by 1930)  

Jacques Canonne, Geneva (acquired by descent from the above)

Paul Rosenberg, Paris (probably acquired from the above circa 1938)

On deposit from the above with Banque Nationale pour le Commerce et l’Industrie (BNCI), Libourne

Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (seized from the above)

On deposit with Jeu de Paume, Paris (by 6 September 1941)

Bruno Lohse, Paris

Alfred Boedecker, Frankfurt am Main (acquired by exchange with the above through Galerie Neupert, Zurich on 7 April 1943)

Galerie Tanner, Zurich (acquired from the above through Galerie Neupert, Zurich)

Pierre Edouard Dubied, Neuchâtel (acquired from the above)

Restituted to Paul Rosenberg, Paris (by March 1949)

Matthiesen Gallery, London (acquired from the above by 1952)

Galerie Durand-Matthiesen, Geneva (acquired from the above) 

Private Collection, Geneva (acquired from the above)

Wildenstein & Co., New York (acquired by 1952)

Barbara Wescott (née Harrison), New Jersey (acquired from the above in 1955) 

Sam Salz, Inc., New York  (acquired by exchange with the above in 1957)

Mr. and Mrs. Josef Rosensaft, New York (acquired from the above in 1958) 

Estate of the above

Private Collection  

Sotheby's, New York, 3 November 2005, lot 163 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, France and Italy (acquired at the above sale)

Private Collection, Monaco (acquired as a gift from the above)

Acquired from the above in 2018 by the present owner

London, Galerie Rosenberg and Helft, Pictures by Monet, Renoir, Sisley, 1938, no. 13 (titled La Petite pêcheuse)

New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., Drawings, Pastels, Paintings by Degas and Renoir, 1949, no. 17, n.p. (titled Child Fishing)

Vévey, Musée Jenisch, De Monet à Chagall: Collection Rosensaft, 1958, no. 7, illustrated in color (on the cover)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paintings From Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1962, no. 79, p. 8

New York, Wildenstein & Co., Renoir: In Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Renoir’s Death, 1969, no. 31, illustrated (titled La Petite pêcheuse)

Tokyo, Galerie Seibu; Fukuoka Akarenga Cultural Center and Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Rétrospective Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1971-72, no. 10, n.p., illustrated (titled La Petite pêcheuse)

Bernheim-Jeune, ed., L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l’art d’autrefois, vol. II, Paris, 1919, p. 61, illustrated; p. 96, pl. 107, illustrated (titled La Petite pêcheuse)

Arsène Alexandre, La Collection Canonne: Une Histoire en action de l’Impressionnisme et de ses suites, Paris, 1930, illustrated (titled Petite pêcheuse)

Maurice Bérard, "Un diplomate ami de Renoir," Revue d'histoire diplomatique, July-September 1956, no. 3, p. 5, illustrated  

Michel Robida, Renoir-Enfants, Lausanne and Paris, 1959, p. 13, illustrated (titled Petite pêcheuse)

François Daulte, "La Collection Rosensaft," Connaissance des arts, April 1959, p. 78, illustrated (titled Petite pêcheuse)

François Daulte, "Vive Renoir," Art News, April 1969, p. 31, illustrated (titled Petite pêcheuse)

François Daulte, Auguste Renoir, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Figures 1860-1890, vol. I, Lausanne, 1971, no. 282, illustrated (titled Petite pêcheuse)

Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. 483, p. 478 (titled Petite pêcheuse)