Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Le Printemps (Les Quatre Saisons)

signed lower right Renoir, pastel on paper
17¼ x 11in. (44 x 28cm.)

Drawn in 1879

Provenance

Georges Charpentier, Paris; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 11, 1907, lot 69 (illustrated)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Gaston Bernheim, Paris and thence by descent to the present owner

Lot Essay

This pastel was part of a work illustrating the seasons commissioned by Georges Charpentier for his wife's salon (The pendant L'Automne appears illustrated in M. Robida, Le Salon Charpentier et les Impressionnistes, Paris, 1958, pl. 17)

François Daulte will include this pastel in vol. VI (Pastels, Aquarelles et Dessins) of this forthcoming Pierre-Auguste Renoir catalogue raisonné

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