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Lot 379
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Femme nue et paysage
  • stamped Renoir (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 14 by 18.5cm., 5 1/2 by 7 1/4 in.

Provenance

Succession Renoir, (sale: Maître George Blaches, Hôtel Rameau, Versailles)
Private Collection, Switzerland (purchased at the above sale)
Sale: Christie's, London, 26th June 2001, lot 125
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Bernheim-Jeune (ed.), L'Atelier de Renoir, Paris, 1931, vol. I, as a portion of no. 315, illustrated as part of pl. 97
Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1903-1910, Paris, 2012, vol. IV, no. 3518., illustrated p. 500

Condition

The canvas is not lined. UV examination reeveals some small retouchings to the white primed areas along the edges. There are a few fines of vertical craquelure to the upper right corner. Otherwise, this work is in overall good condition. Colours: fairly accurate in the printed catalogue, though overall pinker in the original.
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