Lot 414
  • 414

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
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Description

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Étude de nu (après le bain)
  • Signed Renoir (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 17 3/4 by 13 5/8 in.
  • 45.1 by 34.6 cm

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Sam Salz, New York
Sale: Christie's, New York, November 14, 1989, lot 48
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above in 1993

Literature

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. I, Paris, 1918, no. 120, illustrated p. 30
Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. IV, Paris, 2012, no. 3487, illustrated p. 476

Condition

Canvas is lined. There is a layer of varnish on the surface. Under UV light areas of pooling varnish fluoresce unevenly but no inpainting is apparent.
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