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

Claude Renoir jouant aux constructions

Details
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Claude Renoir jouant aux constructions
stamped with signature 'Renoir.' (Lugt 2137b; lower right)
oil on canvas
10 1/8 x 8 5/8 in. (25.7 x 21.9 cm.)
Painted in 1903-1904
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Claude Renoir.
Paul Vallotton SA, Lausanne.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 27 June 1990, lot 102.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 19 November 1998, lot 132.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Bernheim-Jeune, ed., L'Atelier de Renoir, Paris, 1931, p. 236, no. 276 (illustrated, pl. 85; titled Le même jouant aux constructions).
M. Robida, Renoir--Enfants, Lausanne, 1953, p. 44.
Exhibited
Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, L'Impressionisme dans les collections Romandes, June-October 1984, p. 172, no. 78 (illustrated in color, p. 78).
Sale room notice
The Wildenstein Institute will include this painting in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Pierre-Auguste Renoir established from the archives of François Daulte, Durand-Ruel, Venturi, Vollard, and Wildenstein.
We are grateful to Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville for confirming that this picture is included in their Bernheim-Jeune Archives as an authentic work.

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