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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.
We are grateful to Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville for confirming that this painting is included in their Bernheim-Jeune archives as an authentic work.
From the end of the 1870s, Renoir adopted the routine of spending the winter months in Paris and then travelling to the provinces and coast during the summertime. Journeys as far afield as Algeria and Italy, where the vibrant light and novel subjects struck Renoir profoundly, were complemented by trips to the Atlantic and Channel coasts of France. Here Renoir found inspiration in the freshness of the climate and the naturally impressive formal qualities of the coastal landscape. The seaside also offered in the best traditions of Impressionist practice an opportunity to explore the leisure pursuits of the middle classes. In the present work Renoir tackles the subject of boats at rest in a harbour, with the generous application of striking white pigment placing emphasis on the bunched sails of the larger boat and the gusting billow of the sails on the small yellow dinghy.
We are grateful to Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville for confirming that this painting is included in their Bernheim-Jeune archives as an authentic work.
From the end of the 1870s, Renoir adopted the routine of spending the winter months in Paris and then travelling to the provinces and coast during the summertime. Journeys as far afield as Algeria and Italy, where the vibrant light and novel subjects struck Renoir profoundly, were complemented by trips to the Atlantic and Channel coasts of France. Here Renoir found inspiration in the freshness of the climate and the naturally impressive formal qualities of the coastal landscape. The seaside also offered in the best traditions of Impressionist practice an opportunity to explore the leisure pursuits of the middle classes. In the present work Renoir tackles the subject of boats at rest in a harbour, with the generous application of striking white pigment placing emphasis on the bunched sails of the larger boat and the gusting billow of the sails on the small yellow dinghy.