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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Tête d'enfant (fragment)

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December 3, 04:59 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 EUR

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Description

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919

Tête d'enfant (fragment)


oil on canvas laid down on panel

6,4 x 5,7 cm; 2½ x 2¼ in.

Executed circa 1890.


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

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

Private collection, Paris

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. II, Paris, 1918, p. 24, illustrated (first state)

Ambroise Vollard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Tableaux, pastels et dessins, San Francisco, 1989, no. 781, p. 192, illustrated (first state)

Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1859-1902, vol. III, Paris, 2010, no. 2097, p. 228, illustrated (first state, titled Études (personnages) and dated 1898-1900)