ID 1426032
Lot 384 | PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)
Estimate value
$ 700 000 – 1 000 000
La Famille
stamped with signature 'Renoir.' (Lugt 2137b; lower left)
oil on canvas
64 x 51 ¼ in. (162.5 x 130.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1896
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Lucien Vollard, Châtenay-Malabry (by descent from the above, circa 1939).
Edouard Jonas, Paris (by descent from the above, circa 1952).
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York; sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 1 July 1959, lot 35.
O'Hana Gallery, London (acquired at the above sale).
Private collection, United Kingdom; sale, Christie's, London, 27 November 1989, lot 15.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 25 June 1996, lot 12.
Anon. (acquired at the above sale); sale, Christie's, New York, 7 November 2001, lot 141.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
G.-P. and M. Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1895-1902, Paris, 2010, vol. III, p. 190, no. 2034 (illustrated).
Exhibited
London, O'Hana Gallery, Summer Exhibition, Paintings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, June-September 1960, no. 41 (illustrated in color on the cover).
Further Details
This work will be included in the forthcoming Pierre-Auguste Renoir digital catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
Artist: | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919) |
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Art style: | Impressionism |
Genre: | Portrait |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Artist: | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919) |
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Art style: | Impressionism |
Genre: | Portrait |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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