PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR, (1841-1919)

Nature morte aux pêches

Nature morte aux pêches
signed 'Renoir' (lower left)
oil on canvas
20.3 x 30.5cm (8 x 12in).
Painted circa 1905

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.

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist; until 1919).
Galerie Beyeler, Basel.
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 February 1950, lot 39.
Stavros S. Niarchos Collection, Paris; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 28 June 1972, lot 21.
Blair Lang, Toronto (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the present owner (circa 1990).

Literature
A. Vollard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins, Paris, 1918 (San Francisco, 1989, revised edition), no. 425 (illustrated p. 106).
G.-P. & M. Dauberville, Renoir, catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, Vol. IV, 1903 - 1910, Paris, 2012, no. 2743 (illustrated p. 54).