Lot 133A
  • 133A

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Femme en chapeau
  • Stamped Renoir. (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 6 3/4 by 6 3/4 in.
  • 17.2 by 17 cm

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Private Collection, South of France (acquired in 1982)
Thence by descent

Literature

Bernheim-Jeune, ed., L'Atelier de Renoir, vol. I, Paris, 1931, no. 331, illustrated pl. 103
Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. IV, Paris, 2012, no. 3237, illustrated p. 325

Condition

The canvas is lined and the edges are reinforced with tape. The colors are bright. There is very light craquelure in the flower on the figure's bonnet and a few faint horizontal lines of craquelure in the figures blouse towards the bottom edge. There are five artist's pinholes along the extreme left edge of the canvas. Under UV light there is no apparent inpainting. The work is in good condition.
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