PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR | LA MAISON DE LA POSTE

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May 18, 05:25 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection, Connecticut

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR

(1841 - 1919)

LA MAISON DE LA POSTE

Signed Renoir (lower right)

Oil on canvas

8¾ by 11 in. (22.2 by 28 cm)

Framed: 15½ by 17½ in. (39.4 by 44.5 cm)

Painted in 1907.

This work was presented to the Comité Renoir under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc. (WPI) at its virtual meeting in April 2020, held in place of an in-person meeting due to the Covid-19 pandemic and in accordance with associated government regulations on travel and confinement. It will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.

Estate of the artist

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the above)

Galerie Grosshenning, Dusseldorf

Tengelmann, Muelheim an der Ruhr

Neher GmbH & Co., Essen (acquired by 1987)

Galerie Monaco Fine Art, Monaco

Private Collection, Germany (and sold: Sotheby's, London, February 6, 2001, lot 116)

Acquired at the above sale

Bernheim-Jeune, ed., L'Atelier de Renior, vol. I, Paris, 1931, no. 359, illustrated pl. 113 (with incorrect measurements)

Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. IV, Paris, 2012, no. 3089, illustrated p. 235