Lot 107
  • 107

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Vue de Montmartre
  • Stamped Renoir (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 12 by 17 7/8 in.
  • 30.4 by 45.4 cm

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Pierre Renoir, Paris
Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (possibly)
Sale: Palais des Congrés, Versailles, March 11, 1973, lot 128
Sale: Palais des Congrés, Versailles, December 1, 1974, lot 67
Private Collection (and sold: Sotheby's, London, April 1, 1981, lot 30)
Private Collection, Europe (acquired at the above sale and sold: Sotheby's, London, June 28, 1989, lot 119)
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above in 1993

Literature

Bernheim-Jeune, ed., L'Atelier de Renoir, vol. I, Paris, 1931, no. 19, illustrated pl. 10
Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. II, Paris, 2009, no. 902, illustrated p. 129

Condition

This work is in excellent condition. Canvas is not lined though edges are reinforced with tape. Surface is slightly dirty. Under UV light there appear to be a few pindot retouches on the right edge near upper corner, otherwise fine.
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