La couseuse

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
La couseuse
indistinctly signed 'Renoir' (lower left)
oil on canvas
12 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (32.6 x 20 cm.)

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Galerie Tanner, Zurich.
Georges Bloch, Zurich, by whom acquired from the above on 8 October 1949; sale, Christie's, London, 28 November 1989, lot 274.
Acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owners.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

Sale room notice

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

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Lot Essay

This work will be included in volume V of the catalogue raisonné des Tableaux, Pastels, Dessins et Aquarelles de Pierre-Auguste Renoir being prepared by Guy-Patrice Dauberville published by Editions Bernheim- Jeune.

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

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