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Property from an Important European collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Torse de femme nue couchée

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May 13, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important European collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

(1841 - 1919)


Torse de femme nue couchée

signed Renoir (lower right)

oil on canvas

14 ½ by 19 ⅞ in.   36.8 by 50.3 cm.                             

Executed in 1903-05.


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

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist before 1919)

Madeleine de Galéa, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)

Galerie René Drouet, Paris

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above on 12 March 1963)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. I, Paris, 1918, no. 551, pl. 138, illustrated (titled dated 1905)

Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue Raisonné des Tableaux, Pastels, Dessins et Aquarelles, vol. IV, Paris, 2012, no. 3533, p. 508, illustrated (dated circa 1905)

Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art and Kyoto Municipal Museum, Renoir, 1979, no. 70bis, illustrated in color (titled La Dormeuse ou Jeune fille à la gorge nue and dated 1906)

Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, de Renoir à Sam Szafran. Parcours d’un collectionneur, 2010-11, no. 7, p. 29, illustrated in color; p. 276 (titled Nu ou Jeune fille couchée en buste and dated 1905)

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Le Avanguardie nella Parigi fin de siècle: Signac, Bonnard, Redon, and their contemporaries, 2013-14, p. 97, illustrated in color (titled Nu o Jeune fille couchée en buste and dated 1905)

Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Pierre-Auguste Renoir; Revoir Renoir, 2014, no. 77, p. 237, illustrated in color (titled Nu ou Jeune fille couchée en buste and dated 1905)