Lot 428
  • 428

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR | Buste de jeune femme - fragment

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Buste de jeune femme - fragment
  • oil on canvas
  • 15.5 by 13cm., 6 1/8 by 5 1/8 in.
  • Painted circa 1895.

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Margaret Thomson-Biddle (sale: Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 14th June 1957, lot 33)
Seymour L. Halperin, New York (sale: Sotheby's, New York, 8th November 2007, lot 262)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonnĂ© des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1895-1902, Paris, 2007, no. 2159 F, illustrated p. 256

Condition

The canvas has been set into another canvas, which is in turn lined. Inspection under UV light reveals an uneven varnish, notably to the white and cream background. This work is in overall good condition.
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Catalogue Note

This work is accompanied by an Attestation of Inclusion from the Wildenstein Institute, and it will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.