Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Tulipes

Details
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Tulipes
signed bottom right 'Renoir.'
oil on canvas
21 7/8 x 18¼ in. (55.5 x 46.4 cm.)
Painted in 1909
Provenance
Maurice Gangnat, Paris; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 24-25, 1925, lot 132 (illustrated)
Hunt Henderson, New Orleans
Louis S. McGehee School, New Orleans (1961)
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above in July, 1961)
Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York
Literature
J. Meier-Graefe, Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1912, p. 180 (illustrated)
J. Meier-Graefe, Auguste Renoir, Munich, 1920, p. 163 (illustrated)
J. Meier-Graefe, Renoir, Leipzig, 1929, p. 446, no. 339 (illustrated, p. 330)
Exhibited
New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, Early Masters of Modern Art, Nov.-Dec., 1959, no. 39 (illustrated). The exhibition traveled to New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., May-June, 1961.