拍品 417
  • 417

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR | Paysage

估價
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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描述

  • 皮耶·奧古斯特·雷諾瓦
  • Paysage
  • Stamped Renoir. (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 7 3/4 by 13 in.
  • 19.6 by 32.8 cm
  • Painted in 1894.

來源

Durand-Ruel, Paris
Galerie Thannhauser, Berlin & New York
Dr. Sonder, Switzerland
Private Collection, Switzerland (and sold: Galerie Koller, Zurich, June 27, 2014, lot 3215)
Acquired at the above sale

出版

Bernheim-Jeune, ed., L'Atelier de Renoir, vol. I, Paris, 1931, no. 83, illustrated pl. 31
Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1882-1894, vol. II, Paris, 2009, no. 899A, illustrated p. 126

Condition

The canvas is not lined. There are two pindot losses to the pigment, one in the extreme upper right corner and another in the grass of the lower left quadrant. Under UV, some pindot spots of inpainting to the top edge and upper half of the right edge.
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拍品資料及來源

During the 1890s, Renoir increasingly strayed from his original Impressionist technique. He felt that the spontaneous application of pigment, without the aid of preparatory sketches or premeditated composition, led to work which lacked the monumentality and permanence which in his eyes marked truly great art. In the later years of that decade he sought to re-align draughtsmanship with painting, and to underpin the rendering of a specific view, under fleeting conditions of light, with a well-controlled composition of receding perspectives and balanced forms.

The late nineteenth century was a particularly prosperous time for Renoir. By this time, he had become recognized as one of the foremost Impressionist painters and received a significant degree of financial support from the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel. This newfound financial freedom allowed him to paint en plein air with greater frequency, finding that the freshness of natural light was much more desirable to studio work. Paysage is a vivid composition created during this period of artistic growth. Renoir began to travel to the South of France annually, motivated in part by his weakening health but also in search of fresh inspiration for new paintings. In a letter to Durand-Ruel, toward the end of one of his stays in the Mediterranean, Renoir commented on the glorious weather and his newfound delight in plein-air painting: "I am cramming myself with sunshine!" He continued, "This landscape painter's craft is very difficult for me, but these three months will have taken me further than a year in the studio. Afterwards I'll come back and be able to take advantage at home of my experiments" (quoted in Barbara Ehrlich White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, New York, 1984, p. 191).

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.