Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Baigneuse

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919

Baigneuse

signed with the initial R (lower right)

sanguine heightened with white chalk on paper

47.4 by 39.1 cm. 18⅝ by 15⅜ in.

Framed: 70 by 58.5 cm. 27½ by 23 in.

Executed circa 1895.

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 by 1909)

(possibly) Lucien Goldschmidt, New York

Private Collection, New England (acquired by 1962)

Christie's, New York, 5 May 2005, lot 102 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Guy-Patrice and Floriane Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1985-1902, vol. II, Paris, 2010, no. 2592, p. 513, illustrated (titled Esquisse de baigneuse au bras droit levé (Gabrielle))