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Property from the Collection of The 9th Earl of Jersey

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

La grande allée à Varengeville

Auction Closed

June 25, 06:56 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919

 

La grande allée à Varengeville

signed Renoir. (lower right)

oil on canvas

65.8 by 54.6 cm. 25⅞ by 21½ in.

Executed in 1888-90.


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.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the artist before 1919)

Alex Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., London (acquired from the above on 1 October 1934)

David Eccles, London (acquired from the above on 25 October 1934)

Étienne Bignou, Paris

Alex Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., London (acquired in 1943)

George Child Villiers, The 9th Earl of Jersey, Jersey (acquired from the above by 1952)

Thence by descent to the present owner

St Helier, Jersey Museum and Art Gallery, Barreau Art Gallery, Old Masters from Jersey Collections, 1952, no. 35

Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, How Impressionism Began, 1960, no. 51 (dated circa 1880)

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. 1, Paris, 1918, no. 489, pl. 123, illustrated

Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. III, Paris, 2010, no. 1842, p. 92, illustrated (titled Paysage and dated circa 1895-1900)