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Pierre-August Renoir (1841-1919)

Deux Fillettes

细节
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
来源
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.
出版
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).
展览
New York, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paintings by Renoir, January, 1924, no. 3.
Tübingen, Renoir, 1996, no. ?.
拍场告示
Please note that the frame in which the painting is exhibited has been kindly lent to Christie's by Arnold Wiggins & Sons Ltd.

拍品专文

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.