Lot 400
  • 400

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Études: Têtes et maisons
  • Oil on canvas
  • 5 1/2 by 8 1/4 in.
  • 14 by 21 cm

Provenance

Sale: Tajan, Paris, March 26, 2003, lot 12
Private Collection, France (and sold: Sotheby's, London, June 24, 2003, lot 122)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. II, Paris, 1918, illustrated p. 2
Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1903-1910, vol. IV, Paris, 2012, no. 3183, illustrated p. 293

Condition

Very good condition. Canvas is not lined. Some minor cracking, particularly in the figure at left and in the white structure. Under UV light: an uneven layer of varnish fluoresces, but no inpainting is apparent.
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