Deux Fillettes

Details

Pierre-August Renoir (1841-1919)
Deux Fillettes
signed 'Renoir' lower right
oil on canvas
12½ x 16 1/8in. (32 x 41cm.)
Painted circa 1890

Provenance

Mme Georges Durand-Ruel, Paris, to whom given by the Artist.
Durand-Ruel, Paris, purchased from the above in spring 1935.
Mme. de la Chapelle, Paris, by whom purchased from the above in February 1935 for 45,000FF.
Jacques Laroche, Paris.
M. René Weiller, Paris, 1965.

Literature

J. Meier-Graefe, Renoir, Leipzig, 1929, no. 198 (illustrated p. 202).
G. Adriani (ed.), exh. cat., Renoir, Tübingen, 1996 (illustrated p. 256).
F. Daulte, Auguste Renoir, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. I, (Figures 1860-1890), Lausanne, 1971, no. 641 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paintings by Renoir, January, 1924, no. 3.
Tübingen, Renoir, 1996, no. ?.

Sale room notice

Please note that the frame in which the painting is exhibited has been kindly lent to Christie's by Arnold Wiggins & Sons Ltd.

Lot Essay

The present work belongs to a series of oils executed by Renoir of these two young girls in the 1890s. Other notable compositions aside from those of the two sisters sitting in the fields (see figs. 1 and 2) are his celebrated compositions entitled Le chapeau épinglé and Enfants jouant à la balle.

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