Paysage près de la mer

Details

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)
Paysage près de la mer
stamped with signature 'Renoir.' (Lugt 2137b; lower right)
oil on canvas
6 3/8 x 10 ½ in. (16 x 26.6 cm.)
Painted in 1895

Provenance

Estate of the artist (until 1922).
Galerie Barbazanges, Paris (1922, until 1929).
Galerie Tannhauser, Berlin.
Kunsthandel Huinck & Scherjon, Amsterdam.
Anon. sale, Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 13 December 1966, lot 39.
Dr. Batavier, Amsterdam.
Franz Buffa & Zonen, Amsterdam.
Crane Kalman Gallery, London (by June 1967).
William de Gelsey, London (acquired from the above).
Private collection; sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 1 December 1971, lot 36.
Ichimainoe Gallery, Tokyo (acquired at the above sale).
Private collection, Japan (acquired from the above, then by descent).
Acquired by the present owner, 2022.

Literature

Bernheim-Jeune, ed., L'atelier de Renoir, Paris, 1931, vol. II, no. 86 (illustrated as part of a larger canvas, pl. 32; titled Rivière entre falaises, femmes, enfants).
G.-P. and M. Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1895-1902, Paris, 2010, vol. III, p. 104, no. 1862 (illustrated; titled Rivière entre falaises ou Paysage près de la mer).

Further details

This work will be included in the forthcoming Pierre-Auguste Renoir digital catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.