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Property of a Gentleman

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Buste de femme à la robe bleue

Session begins in

May 16, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Bid

130,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Gentleman

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919 


Buste de femme à la robe bleue

signed Renoir (upper right) 

oil on canvas 

12 ⅝ by 9 ¼ in. 

32 by 23.5 cm. 

Executed circa 1898. 


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 by 1919)

Galerie des États-Unis, Cannes

M. and Mme. D., France

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 December 1997, lot Q (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired by 1999)

Galerie Matignon Saint-Honoré, Paris

Private Collection, Texas (acquired from the above on 7 March 2002)

Private Collection

Acquired from the above in 2018 by the present owner

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. II, Paris, 1918, no. 566, p. 142, illustrated (titled Tête de femme)

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, San Francisco, 1989, no. 566, p. 142, illustrated (titled Tête de femme)

Guy Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles1895-1902, vol. III, Paris, 2010, no. 2305, p. 351, illustrated (titled Tête de femme (Portrait de jeune fille à la robe bleue) and dated circa 1900)

Rome, Museo del Risorgimento, Palazzo del Vittoriano, Renoir, dall'Italia alla Costa Azzurra: 1881-1919, March – July 1999, p. 88, illustrated in color (titled Portrait de jeune fille à la robe bleue)