Etude pour Oedipe, La Tragédienne

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Etude pour Oedipe, La Tragédienne
signed with the initial 'R.' (upper left)
oil on canvas
8 1/4 x 7 1/8 in. (21 x 18.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1895

Provenance

(Possibly) Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Galerie Tanner, Zurich, 1953.
J. Wild, Zurich, and thence by descent; sale, Koller, Zurich, 24 June 2011, lot 3206.
Anonymous sale, Dobiaschofsky Auktionen, Bern, 17 May 2013, lot 466.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

A. Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. II, Paris, 1919 (illustrated pl. 126).
G.-P. & M. Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. III, 1895-1902, Paris, 2010, no. 2149, p. 250 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

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.

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