Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Les voiliers

Details
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Les voiliers
stamped with signature bottom left 'Renoir.' Lugt (2137b)
oil on canvas
6¾ x 11 5/8in. (16.5 x 32.2cm.)
Painted in 1885
Provenance
Valentine Dudensing, New York
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, 1929)
Hugh J. Chisholm, Jr., Portchester, New York (acquired from the above, 1937)
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (1938)
Kleeman Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, 1941)
M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired by the family of the present owner, 1942)
Exhibited
Williamstown, Massachusetts, Williams College Museum of Art, Williams Alumni Loan Exhibition, May-June, 1962, no. 72

Lot Essay

François Daulte will include this painting in volume IV (Paysages) of his Renoir catalogue raisonné.