Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Nature morte au melon

Session begins in

May 16, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Bid

130,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, New York

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919

Nature morte au melon

signed Renoir (lower right)

oil on canvas

8 ⅝ by 14 ½ in.

21.9 by 36.8 cm.

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

The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Floriane Dauberville.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist by 1919)

Philippe Bemberg, Paris and Lausanne

Private Collection, France (acquired by descent from the above)

Sotheby's, London, 20 June 2019, lot 358 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Private Collection, United Kingdom (acquired from the above)

M.S. Rau Antiques, New Orleans

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Ambroise Vollard, Tableux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. II, Paris, 1918, pl. 158, illustrated

Ambroise Vollard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Paintings, Pastels and Drawings, San Francisco, 1989, p. 326, fig. 158, illustrated