Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Nature morte aux citrons - fragment

Estimate

70,000 - 90,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919

Nature morte aux citrons - fragment

signed Renoir (lower right)

oil on canvas

16.4 by 34.8 cm. 6⅜ by 13⅝ in.

Framed: 35 by 54.1 cm. 13¾ by 21¼ in.

Executed 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, Inc.

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

Private Collection (acquired circa 1950)

Private Collection, Europe (acquired by descent from the above)

Christie's, London, 25 June 2008, lot 598 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1903–1910, vol. 4, 2012, no. 2798, p. 84, illustrated (titled Nature morte aux citrons, and dated circa 1910)