Esquisse pour Oedipe Roi

Details

Pierre-August Renoir (1841-1919)
Esquisse pour Oedipe Roi
stamped with the signature (Lugt 21375; lower right)
sanguine, heightened with white on tracing paper
11 x 11½in. (28 x 29.2cm.)
Executed circa 1895

Provenance

The artist's estate.
Acquired by the grandfather of the previous owner's wife.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 24 March 1993, lot 2.
Acquired at the above by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Renoir's friend Paul Gallimard, the owner of the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris, commissioned the artist to paint a series of oil paintings depicting the classical story of Oedipus and Jocasta, for his residence in Normandy. The present work is a study for this oil, and was executed circa 1895. Gallimard never acquired the paintings and they therefore remained in the artist's studio, together with several related drawings.

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