Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Renoir, P.-A.
Fleurs dans un vase
signed twice 'Renoir' (upper and lower right)
oil on canvas
11 x 9 in. (23.5 x 17.8 cm.)
Painted in 1878
Provenance
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (1891).
Georges Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the above, 1908).
Jean Laroche, Paris.
Jacques Laroche, Paris.
Pierre Bers, Paris (acquired from the above, 1960).
Literature
D. Marchesseau, Diego Giacometti, Paris, 1986, p. 155 (illustrated in color; the photograph was taken in 1978 of Pierre Bers' living room showing this painting on the mantelpiece).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Exposition de natures mortes par Monet, Czanne, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, A. Andr, d'Espagnat, 1908, no. 56.
Lot Essay
This painting will be reproduced in the Renoir catalogue raisonn from Franois Daulte being prepared by the Wildenstein Institute.
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