Lot 127
  • 127

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Letter from Pierre-Auguste Renoir to Téodor de Wyzewa on the subject of Mme Wyzewa's illness
  • Signed Renoir (lower right); inscribed Essoyes and dated 10 Juillet 1901 (lower center)
  • Pen and ink on paper
  • 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 in.
  • 21 by 14 cm
Autograph letter signed. 1 page. 12 July 1901, to Teodoura Wyzewa expressing condolences for his wife's illness.

Provenance

Téodor de Wyzewa
B. Altman & Co., New York
Acquired from the above on October 16, 1980

Condition

Executed on beige graph paper which has been T-hinged to a mount at two places on the top edge of its verso. The sheet has been folded in half vertically and a vertical and a horizontal crease run through the center of the sheet. The sheet is a little time-darkened and also mat-stained. There are some extremely minor tears to the outer perimeter of the sheet including a couple which have been repaired. The sheet is gently wrinkled toward the upper left corner. Otherwise in good condition.
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