Sale 6314
London
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27 June 2000
Price realised
GBP 135,750
Estimate
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Sur la falaise signed 'Renoir' (lower left) oil on canvas 103/8 x 181/8 in. (26.5 x 46 cm.) Painted in 1880
Provenance
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (no. 10874). Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York (no. 4364). Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., London.
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Literature
E. Fezzi, Renoir, Milan, 1972, no. 440 (illustrated, p. 108).
Exhibited
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, June 1949.
This painting will be reproduced in the Renoir catalogue raisonné from François Daulte being prepared by the Wildenstein Institute.
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