Property from a Private Collection, Germany
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Partie de croquet or Jeunes filles jouant à la balle
Live auction begins on:
June 25, 02:00 PM GMT
Estimate
180,000 - 250,000 GBP
Bid
160,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841 - 1919
Partie de croquet or Jeunes filles jouant à la balle
signed Renoir (lower right)
sanguine, pencil and chalk on paper
58.3 by 51.5 cm. 23 by 20¼ in.
framed: 91.7 by 81 cm. 36⅛ by 31⅞ in.
Executed in 1892.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
This work will be included in the second supplement to the Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles de Pierre-Auguste Renoir being prepared by Guy Patrice Dauberville and Floriane Dauberville.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the artist by 11 April 1907)
Paul B. Vogel, Geneva (acquired by 1971)
Galerie Koller, Zurich, 1 June 1973, lot 3044
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above sale)
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired by descent from the above)
Sotheby's, London, 4 February 2010, lot 125 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Tokyo, Seibu Museum; Fukuoka, Culture Center Museum and Kobé, Hyogo Modern Art Museum, Retrospective Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1971-72, no. 58
Zurich, Art Focus, Frau: Zeitspiegel - Modelle, 1995-96, pp. 16-17, illustrated in colour (titled Jeu de Balles)
