La Liseuse

细节

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
La Liseuse
stamped with signature 'Renoir' (Lugt 2137b; lower left)
oil on canvas
11 x 7 1/8 in. (28 x 18.1 cm.)
Painted in 1906

来源

Estate of the artist.
Valentine Gallery, Inc., New York.
Mrs. Harry B. Spaulding, Buffalo (acquired from the above, 1935).
By descent from the above to the late owner.

出版

Bernheim-Jeune, ed., Atelier de Renoir, Paris, 1918, no. 319 (illustrated, pl. 98).

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拍场告示

The Wildenstein Institute will include this painting in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Pierre-Auguste Renoir established from the archives of François Daulte, Durand-Ruel, Venturi, Vollard, and Wildenstein.
We are grateful to Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville for confirming that this picture is included in their Bernheim-Jeune Archives as an authentic work.

拍品专文

Renoir's interest in Provençal culture is reflected in his choice of subjects taken from daily rural life which became an increasingly significant proportion of his output after the turn of the century. While Renoir did not abandon his lucrative large-scale society-portrait commissions, his private work focused on informal portrait studies of family members and friends. These paintings are characterized by their more intimate style and smaller scale. In order to achieve a natural, relaxed effect, he asked his sitters to present themselves in their normal manner, dressed in the clothes they wore regularly, so that the finished result would be true to modern life. He then posed his subject against a neutral background that was devoid of distracting detail, allowing him to concentrate on the handling of the brushwork and to emphasize the luminous quality of the paint. La Liseuse dates from this mature period and is representative of the artist's concerns not only in its choice of subject but also in it's painterly treatment and palette of subtly modulated jewel tones punctuated with touches of luminous white.