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An Impressionist Discovery: Property from a Private Collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

La Source

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

An Impressionist Discovery: Property from a Private Collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919


La Source

signed with the initials AR. (lower right) 

oil on canvas 

25 ⅜ by 18 ⅛ in.

61.9 by 46 cm.

Executed in 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.

Please note that the cataloguing for this work has been updated.

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

Private Collection, France  

Sotheby & Co., London, 29 November 1967, lot 51 (consigned by the above)

O’Hana Gallery, London (acquired from the above)  

Acquired from the above in 1969 by the present owner 

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels, et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. I, Paris, 1918, no. 63, p. 16, illustrated (as part of a larger composition)

Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles 1895 - 1902, vol. III, Paris, 2010, no. 2452, p. 439, illustrated

London, O’Hana Gallery, Summer Exhibition: French Paintings and Sculpture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 1969, no. 73, illustrated