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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Étude pour les grandes baigneuses

Lot Closed

June 16, 04:21 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919

Étude pour les grandes baigneuses


Signed Renoir (lower right)

Sanguine and white chalk on paper laid down on canvas

34 ¼ by 46 ⅞ in. (87 by 119 cm)

Framed: 48 ¼ by 60 in. (122.5 by 152.4 cm.)

Executed circa 1884-87.


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


This work will be included in the second supplement to the Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles de Pierre-Auguste Renoir being prepared by Guy Patrice Dauberville and Floriane Dauberville.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the artist before 1919)
Lucien Vollard, Châtenay-Malabry (by descent from above in 1939)
Edouard Jonas, Paris (by descent from the above in January 1952)
Madame Assunta Jonas, Paris (by descent from the above in 1961)
Sale: Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris, June 10, 1981, lot 13
S. Block, Marblehead, Massachusetts
The Montclaire Corporation, Lynn, Massachusetts
Knoedler-Modarco S.A., New York
Sale: Christie's, New York, May 17, 1984, lot 113
Björn Kihlström, Stockholm (acquired circa 1988)
Angelica Thörnqvist, Gothenburg (acquired in 1994)
Bengt Westin, Sweden (acquired circa 1995)
Magnus Abrahamson, Gothenburg (acquired from the above circa 1996)
Staffan Sundelin, Borås (acquired in 1998)
Palace Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1998)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1999