Lot 336
  • 336

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Petite baigneuse
  • Oil on canvas laid down on panel
  • 7 1/2 by 4 5/8 in.
  • 19.2 by 11.7 cm

Provenance

Sale: Christie's, London, June 28, 1977, lot 8
Hammer Galleries, New York
Private Collection, United States (acquired from the above in 1980)
Acquired by the present owner in 2008

Literature

Ambroise Vollard, Talbeaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. II, Paris, illustrated p. 181 (as part of a larger canvas)
Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. II, Paris, 2009, no. 1309, illustrated p. 388

Condition

Oil on canvas laid down on panel. The edges are reinforced with tape. The surface is clean. Some craquelure in the green pigments. There is a dot of paint loss one-inch above center of the bottom edge. Under UV light a few thin lines of inpainting are visible, notably at the upper right and lower left corners, in the figure’s cheek, in the green to the right of the figure’s hair, and in the water to the right of the figure’s torso. Otherwise fine. Overall this work is in good condition
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