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A Legacy of Innovation: Works From The Collection of William S. Paley Sold to Benefit the Museum of Modern Art and other Charitable Organizations

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Étude pour "Le Bain"

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November 15, 10:48 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 USD

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A Legacy of Innovation: Works From The Collection of William S. Paley Sold to Benefit the Museum of Modern Art and other Charitable Organizations

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919


Étude pour "Le Bain"

signed Renoir (lower right)

pen and ink and pencil on paper

18 by 12⅞ in.

45.9 by 32.8 cm.

Executed in 1884.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Sam Salz, Inc., New York
William S. Paley, New York (acquired from the above in 1951)
Acquired by bequest in 1990 by the William S. Paley Foundation
Ambroise Vollard, La Vie et l’oeuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1919, p. 83, illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The William S. Paley Collection, 1992; revised 2012, no. 63, p. 149, illustrated in color
Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1882-1894, vol. II, Paris, 2009, no. 1598, p. 559, illustrated
New York, The Museum of Modern Art (on loan from 1990)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Diego Museum of Art; Baltimore Museum of Art and New Orleans Museum of Art, The William S. Paley Collection, 1992-1994, no. 63, p. 171, illustrated