Pierre-Auguste Renoir Étude de nus
Property from an Esteemed European Collection
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841 - 1919
Étude de nus
signed Renoir (lower right)
charcoal on paper on cardboard
image: 28.8 by 46.1 cm. 11⅜ by 18⅛ in.
mount: 41.4 by 58.8 cm. 16¼ by 23⅛ in.
framed: 55.8 by 72.7 cm. 22 by 28⅝ in.
Executed in 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.
Provenance:
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the artist by 1907)
Acquired by the present owner by 2003
Literature:
Ambroise Vollard, ed, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. 1, Paris, 1918, no. 185, p. 47, illustrated (titled Nus de femmes)
Ambroise Vollard, ed, La vie et l’œuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1919, p. 44, illustrated (titled Étude de femmes nues and dated circa 1885)
Guy-Patrice et Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue Raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles 1882-1894, vol. 2, Paris, 2009, no. 1520, p. 516, illustrated (titled Étude de femmes nues and dated circa 1885)
Property from an Esteemed European Collection
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841 - 1919
Étude de nus
signed Renoir (lower right)
charcoal on paper on cardboard
image: 28.8 by 46.1 cm. 11⅜ by 18⅛ in.
mount: 41.4 by 58.8 cm. 16¼ by 23⅛ in.
framed: 55.8 by 72.7 cm. 22 by 28⅝ in.
Executed in 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.
Provenance:
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the artist by 1907)
Acquired by the present owner by 2003
Literature:
Ambroise Vollard, ed, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. 1, Paris, 1918, no. 185, p. 47, illustrated (titled Nus de femmes)
Ambroise Vollard, ed, La vie et l’œuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1919, p. 44, illustrated (titled Étude de femmes nues and dated circa 1885)
Guy-Patrice et Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue Raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles 1882-1894, vol. 2, Paris, 2009, no. 1520, p. 516, illustrated (titled Étude de femmes nues and dated circa 1885)
