Paysage du midi

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Paysage du midi
signed 'Renoir' (lower right)
oil on canvas
10 5/8 x 18 1/8 in. (27 x 46 cm.)

Provenance

Possibly Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Anonymous sale, Me Mercier & Cie., Lille, 15 December 1996.

Literature

A. Vollard, Tableaux, Pastels & Dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. II, Paris, 1919, p. 190 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Un demi siècle de Peinture Française 1900-1950, June - July 1950.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

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.

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