Pierre-Auguste Renoir Buste de femme à la robe bleue

Property of a Gentleman
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841 - 1919

Buste de femme à la robe bleue
signed Renoir (upper right)
oil on canvas
12 ⅝ by 9 ¼ in.
32 by 23.5 cm.
Executed circa 1898.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.

Condition Report:
The canvas is lined and the edges are taped. The varnish is slightly discolored. Artist's pinholes in the upper and lower left corners and along the left edge. A few pindot accretions in the lower right corner. Under UV light: a few nailhead-sized areas corresponding to the pinholes along the left edge fluoresce, but a milky varnish obscures further reading. A few of these areas are visible to the naked eye upon close inspection. A few pindots of retouching in the lower left corner. The work is in overall very good condition.

Provenance:
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist by 1919)

Galerie des États-Unis, Cannes

M. and Mme. D., France

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 December 1997, lot Q (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired by 1999)

Galerie Matignon Saint-Honoré, Paris

Private Collection, Texas (acquired from the above on 7 March 2002)

Private Collection

Acquired from the above in 2018 by the present owner