Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Petite baigneuse

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Petite baigneuse
signed 'Renoir' (lower right)
red chalk on paper
12½ x 7¾in. (32 x 19.5cm.)
Executed circa 1885

Literature

J.G. Stella, The Graphic Work of Renoir. catalogue raisonné, London, no.28 (the etching illustrated).
A. Vollard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Paintings, Pastels and Drawings, Paris, 1918, no.164 (the etching illustrated p.41).

Lot Essay

This drawing was later used by Renoir as the basis for the etching Baigneuse, debout, en pied, (A. Vollard, op.cit., no.164, illustrated p.164).

To be included in Vol. VI (Les Aquarelles, Pastels et Dessins) of the Renoir catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by François Daulte.

Sold with a photo-certificate from François Daulte dated Lausanne, le 17 mars 1997.

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