Pierre-Auguste Renoir Portrait de femme (Gabrielle Renard)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841 - 1919
Portrait de femme (Gabrielle Renard)

signed Renoir. (centre right)
oil on canvas
Canvas: 51 by 41.2cm., 20 by 16¼in.
Window: 42.5 by 36.6cm., 16¾ by 14⅜in.
Framed: 70 by 65cm., 27½ by 25½in.
Painted circa 1912.

This work is accompanied by an Attestation of Inclusion from the Wildenstein Institute, and it will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital Catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute.

Condition Report:
The canvas is lined and the edges are taped. There do not appear to be any signs of reotuching visible under UV light. There are a couple of small in-filled spots to the upper two corners and the lower right corner, which possibly relate to artist's pinholes. There is a pin-sized hole to the centre of the extreme right edge. There is some light surface dirt and some scattered fly spots in places. This work is in overall good condition.

Provenance:
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the artist in 1919)

Mrs. Dübi-Müller, Solothurn, Switzerland

Private Collection (sold: Christie's, New York, 12th May 1987, lot 35)

Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona

The Estate of Elizabeth Green Romano (acquired from the above in 2003. Sold: Sotheby's, New York, 7th November, 2012, lot 130)

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner