Lot 13
  • 13

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Paysage bord de mer
  • Signed with artist's initial R (lower right)
  • Oil on paper laid down on canvas
  • 2 5/8 by 6 5/8 in.
  • 6.7 by 16.8 cm

Provenance

Amboise Vollard, Paris (acquired as a gift from the artist)
Sam Salz, New York (acquired as a gift from Vollard)
Gustave M. Berne, Great Neck, New York (acquired as a gift from Sam Salz)
Rothschild Fine Arts, New York
Sale: Christie's, New York, May 31, 1984, lot 32
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Condition

Paper is laid down on canvas. Canvas is stiff. Pigment separation in white pigments upper left. Edges of paper are covered with brown paper that wraps around the sides of the stretcher. Surface is slightly soiled. Under UV light: o apparent inpainting.
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