Jeune fille lisant

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Jeune fille lisant
signed 'Renoir' (upper left)
oil on canvas
11½ x 10¼ in. (29.2 x 26 cm.)
Painted in 1904

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Robert de Galéa, Paris.
Galerie Zak, Paris.
Redfern Gallery, London.
Anonymous sale, Parke Bernet, New York, 17 May 1945, lot 45.
W. Heimann, New York.
Ann and Amy Putnam, New York.
The San Diego Museum, San Diego.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 30 June 1999, lot 163.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

A. Vollard, Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. II, Paris, 1918, p. 61 (illustrated).

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

This painting will be included in the forthcoming Renoir catalogue critique being prepared by the Wildenstein Institute and established from the archive funds of François Daulte, Durand-Ruel, Venturi, Vollard and Wildenstein.

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