La maison de la poste à Cagnes

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
La maison de la poste à Cagnes
signed 'Renoir' (lower left)
oil on canvas
12 5/8 x 18¼ in. (32.1 x 46.4 cm.)
Painted in 1907

Provenance

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the artist, 1908).
Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Merion, Pennsylvania (acquired from the above, 1914).
Nelle M. Mullen, Merion, Pennsylvania (acquired by the mid-1920's); Estate sale, Samuel T. Freeman & Co., Philadelphia, 15 November 1967, lot 14.
Jane du Pont Lunger, Greenville, Delaware (acquired at the above sale).
Gift from the above to the present owner.

Literature

A.C. Barnes and V. de Mazia, The Art of Renoir, New York, 1935, pp. 89n, 122n-123n and 463, no. 222 (titled View of Cagnes; dated early 1900s).

Special notice

This lot is exempt from Sales Tax.

Further details

*This lot may be exempt from sales tax as set forth in the Sales Tax Notice at the back of the catalogue.

Lot Essay

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.

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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