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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)
Buste de femme nue (fragment)
Details
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)
Buste de femme nue (fragment)
bears the signature 'renoir.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
5 5⁄8 x 6 in. (14.2 x 15.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1885
Buste de femme nue (fragment)
bears the signature 'renoir.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
5 5⁄8 x 6 in. (14.2 x 15.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1885
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Ambroise Vollard’s heirs, from whom disposed in 1940.
Martin Fabiani & Étienne Bignou, Paris.
Private collection, London & Paris, by whom acquired in Paris, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Please note that the present work is being offered for sale pursuant to a settlement agreement between the current owner and the heirs of Ambroise Vollard. The settlement agreement resolves the dispute over ownership of the work and title will pass to the successful bidder.
Ambroise Vollard’s heirs, from whom disposed in 1940.
Martin Fabiani & Étienne Bignou, Paris.
Private collection, London & Paris, by whom acquired in Paris, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Please note that the present work is being offered for sale pursuant to a settlement agreement between the current owner and the heirs of Ambroise Vollard. The settlement agreement resolves the dispute over ownership of the work and title will pass to the successful bidder.
Literature
(Possibly) A. Vollard, Tableaux, pastels & dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir (nouvelle série), Paris, 1919, p. 151 (illustrated).
G.-P. & M. Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. II, 1882-1894, Paris, 2009, no. 1619, p. 572 (illustrated; titled 'Feuille d'études').
G.-P. & M. Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. II, 1882-1894, Paris, 2009, no. 1619, p. 572 (illustrated; titled 'Feuille d'études').
Further details
This work will be included in the forthcoming Pierre-Auguste Renoir digital catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
This work will be included in the second supplement to the Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles de Renoir being prepared by Guy-Patrice and Floriane Dauberville.
Please note that the present work is being offered for sale pursuant to a settlement agreement between the current owner and the heirs of Ambroise Vollard. The settlement agreement resolves the dispute over ownership of the work and title will pass to the successful bidder.
This work will be included in the second supplement to the Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles de Renoir being prepared by Guy-Patrice and Floriane Dauberville.
Please note that the present work is being offered for sale pursuant to a settlement agreement between the current owner and the heirs of Ambroise Vollard. The settlement agreement resolves the dispute over ownership of the work and title will pass to the successful bidder.
Présenté par
Katarina Stojanovic
Specialist, Head of Day Sale