Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Artichauts et tomates

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Artichauts et tomates
signed and dated ‘Renoir. 87.’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 x 21 3/4 in. (45.8 x 55.2 cm.)
Painted in 1887

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Provenance
Victor Mandl, Wiesbaden.
Franz Kleinberger, Paris.
Howard Young Galleries, New York.
Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, by 1940 and until at least 1944.
Jean-Pierre Durand-Matthiesen, Geneva.
Acquired from the above by the family of the late owner on 27 May 1958.

Pre-Lot Text
THE PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT SWISS COLLECTOR

Exhibited
Los Angeles, Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Renoir, October - November 1940, no. 5.
San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor, Paintings by Pierre Auguste Renoir, November 1944, p. 31 (illustrated).
Marseille, Musée Cantini, Renoir: Peintre et sculpteur, June - September 1963, no. 10 (illustrated).