Lot 194
  • 194

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Les Arbres
  • Signed with initial R (lower right)
  • Watercolor on paper
  • 8 1/2 by 10 1/2 in.
  • 21.5 by 26.6 cm

Provenance

James Vigeveno, Los Angeles
Mrs. Fini Getty, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above circa 1950 and thence by descent)

Exhibited

Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (on extended loan from 1997)

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper. Colors are bright and fresh. Sheet is light struck. At bottom edge and top edge of the sheet there are lighter bands which correspond at the fold lines where the sheet is doubled up. A few tape remnants and pencil markings visible on the verso of th sheet, otherwise fine. This work is in good condition.
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