Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Etude pour Oedipe, La Tragédienne

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November 6, 03:40 PM GMT

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30,000 GBP

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Lot Details

Description

Property of a Gentleman

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919

Étude pour Oedipe, la tragédienne

signed with the initial R. (upper left)

oil on canvas

21 by 18.1cm., 8¼ by 7⅛ in.

Framed: 34.3 by 31.8cm., 13½ by 12½ 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.

(Possibly) Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Galerie Tanner, Zurich (acquired by 1953)

J. Wild, Zurich

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

Koller, Zurich, 24 June 2011, lot 3206 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired from the above sale)

Dobiaschofsky Auktionen, Bern, 17 May 2013, lot 466

Private Collection (acquired from the above sale)

Christie's, London, 1 March 2017, lot 508 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. II, Paris, 1919, pl. 126, illustrated

Guy Patrice and Floriane Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1895-1902, vol. III, Paris, 2010, no. 2149, p. 250, illustrated