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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)

Lot 57
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ID 1163407
Lot 57 | PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)
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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)

Sur la falaise

signed and dated 'Renoir.79.' (lower right)

oil on canvas

21 ¼ x 25 5⁄8 in. (54.1 x 65.1 cm.)

Painted in Pourville in 1879





Provenance

Victor Chocquet, Paris.

Marie Chocquet [née Buisson], Paris, by descent from the above circa 1891; her estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1 July 1899, lot 92.

Isidore Montaignac, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.

Delasalle, Paris.

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, by whom acquired from the above on 10 September 1908 (no. 16749).

Hugo Nathan, Frankfurt am Main, by whom acquired from the above on 24 December 1908.

Martha Nathan, Geneva, by descent from the above in 1922.

Fritz Nathan, St. Gallen, by whom acquired from the above via Georg Ludwig Dreyfus in September 1946, and thence by descent to the present owners.



Literature

G. Swarzenski, 'Die Sammlung Hugo Nathan' in Kunst und Kunstler: Illustrierte Monatsschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, vol. XV, no. 3, December 1916, p. 110.

A. Vollard, 'Die Impressionistischen Theorien' in Kunst und Kunstler: Illustrierte Monatsschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, vol. XX, no. 9, Berlin, 1922, p. 315 (illustrated; titled 'Falaises').

M. Drucker, Renoir, Paris, 1944, no. 52, p. 201 (illustrated pl. 52; titled 'Falaises a Pourville').

M. Drucker, Renoir, Paris, 1949, no. 50, p. 196 (illustrated pl. 50; titled 'Falaises a Pourville').

W. Gaunt, Renoir Paintings, London, 1952, pl. 46, p. 10 (illustrated; titled 'Les Falaises de Pourville').

M. Drucker, Renoir, Paris, 1955, no. 50, p. 152 (illustrated pl. 50; titled 'Falaises a Pourville').

E. Fezzi, L'Opera completa di Renoir, nel periodo impressionista 1869-1883, Milan, 1972, no. 359, p. 105 (illustrated; titled 'Scogliere a Pourville').

W. Gaunt & K. Adler, Renoir, Oxford, 1982, pp. 17, 18 & 30 (illustrated fig. 5; titled 'The Cliffs of Pourville').

G.-P. & M. Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. I, 1858-1881, Paris, 2007, no. 150, p. 210 (illustrated).

M. Reinhard-Felice ed., Victor Chocquet: Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cezanne, Monet, Manet, Bern, 2015, no. 95, p. 211 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Exposition A. Renoir, January - February 1900, no. 48, p. 4 (titled 'La Falaise').

Basel, Kunsthalle, Meister des XIX. Jahrhunderts, September - October 1931, no. 92, p. 8 (titled 'Falaises').

Tübingen, Kunsthalle, Renoir, January - May 1996, no. 54, p. 192 (illustrated p. 194; titled 'Falaises à Pourville').

London, The National Gallery, Renoir Landscapes 1865-1883, February - May 2007, no. 47, p. 206 (illustrated p. 207; titled 'Cliffs at Berneval').



Further Details

This work will be included in the forthcoming Renoir digital catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
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