Lot 162
  • 162

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Le Repas des vendangeuses
  • Signed with the initial R (lower right)
  • Sanguine heightened with white on paper
  • 17 3/8 by 12 3/8 in.
  • 44.1 by 31.4 cm

Provenance

Galerie André Weil, Paris
Bliss Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above in 2001

Literature

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels & dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. I, Paris, 1918, no. 558, illustrated pl. 140 (titled Paysannes)

Condition

Executed on cream laid paper laid down on card, which is in turn held to the backing board at its corners. Left, bottom and right edges are deckled. The top edge is partially deckled and partially cut. Artist pinholes at bottom corners. Sheet is slightly time darkened. This work is in generally very good condition.
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