Femme au col de dentelle

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Femme au col de dentelle
signed with the artist's initial (lower right)
pen and ink on paper
16¼ x 11 7/8in. (41.2 x 30cm.)
Executed in 1894

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris.

Literature

A. Vollard, La vie et l'oeuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1919 (illustrated p. 151).

Special notice

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Sale room notice

Pen and ink and white wash on laid paper laid down on cardboard.
Please note that this Lot will be sold with a photo-certificate from the Wildenstein Institute dated Paris, le 16 janvier 2002.

Lot Essay

The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by the Wildenstein Institute, who will include the work in their forthcoming Pierre-Auguste Renoir catalogue raisonné.

This work is a study for the painting Etude de femme, 1895 (See A. Vollard, Tableaux, pastels, & dessins de Pierre-August Renoir, San Francisco, 1989, no. 116, illustrated p. 29).

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