Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Étude pour "La Danse à la campagne"

Lot Closed

November 19, 05:13 PM GMT

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919

Étude pour "La Danse à la campagne"

Bears the initial R (lower right)

Watercolor, ink wash and pencil on paper

17 1/2 by 11 in. (45 by 27 cm)

Framed: 26 1/2 by 20 in. (67.3 by 50.8 cm)

Executed in 1883.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)

Sarah Jane Sanford Pansa, Rome & New York

Private Collection, New York (and sold: Christie's, New York, November 11, 1997, lot 103)

J.E. Safra, Geneva (acquired at the above sale and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 15, 2017, lot 142)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. I, Paris, 1918, no. 53, illustrated p. 14
Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. 1593, illustrated p. 557