Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Poisson

Details
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Poisson
signed 'Renoir.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
9½ x 17¾ in. (24.1 x 45.1 cm.)
Painted in 1916
Provenance
Robinot Frères, Paris (1927).
Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin and Dusseldorf.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 23 October 1996, lot 25.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Bernheim-Jeune, ed., L'Atelier de Renoir, Paris, 1931, no. 561 (illustrated, pl. 178).
Sale room notice
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue critique of Pierre-Auguste Renoir being prepared by the Wildenstein Institute established from the archives of François Daulte, Durand-Ruel, Venturi, Vollard and Wildenstein.

Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville have confirmed that this painting is included in their Bernheim-Jeune archives as an authentic work.

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