Property from the Estate of Eleanor Searle Whitney McCollum Eleanor Searle Whitney McCollum led a remarkable life and is remembered for her generous charity, her spiritual leadership and her sense of style. As a young woman, she studied opera and took voice lessons at Columbia University in New York and lived there with her first husband, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and their son later moving to Washington, D.C. She was featured on the cover of a 1946 edition of Life, and performed as a soloist with the United States Air Force Band and Billy Graham Ministries. In 1975, she married Leonard F. 'Mc' McCollum and moved to Houston where she was a longtime supporter of the Houston Grand Opera. In 1999 she received the 26th annual Savvy Award for Women of Distinction in recognition of her lifetime service to: Paget's Disease Foundation, UNICEF, ORBIS International, and The Bone Disease Program of Texas.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Bouquet de fleurs

細節

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Bouquet de fleurs
signed and dated 'Renoir juin 1858' (lower left)
oil on canvas
23¾ x 19¾ in. (60.2 x 50.2 cm.)
Painted in June 1858

來源

Bignou Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owner.

出版

A. Vollard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Tableaux, Pastels, et Dessins, Paris, 1989, vol. 2, pl. 90 (illustrated).

拍品專文

This painting will be included in the forthcoming Renoir catalogue raisonné from François Daulte under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.