Lot 342
  • 342

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • La sortie du bain
  • signed Renoir (lower right)
  • sanguine on paper
  • 47 by 34cm., 18 1/2 by 13 1/4 in.

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zürich 
Emil Georg Bührle, Zürich (acquired from the above on 31st January 1954)
Dr. Dieter Bührle, Zürich (by descent from the above)
Private Collection, Switzerland

Exhibited

Zürich, Galerie Dr. W. Feilchenfeldt, 1954

Literature

Arnold Kübler, 'Aus der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle' in Du, Zurich, 1957, vol. XVII, no. 12, illustrated p. 50
François Daulte (ed.), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Watercolours, pastels and drawings, London, 1959, no. 21, illustrated in colour n.p.
Renoir in the 20th Century (exhibition catalogue), Grand Palais, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles & Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadephia, 2010, mentioned p. 182

Condition

Executed on thin, cream, wax paper, not laid down and t-hinged to the mount with tape at the upper two corners. The left edge has been removed from a sketch book and is unevenly cut. The sheet is time stained along all four edges, with some mount staining. The sheet is gently undulating and there are three small creases along the right edge (the longest of which 4cm). There are some small scattered spots of foxing. This work is in overall good condition.
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