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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)
Composition aux melon et tomates
Details
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)
Composition aux melon et tomates
signed 'Renoir.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
11 ¾ x 15 ¾ in. (30 x 40 cm.)
Painted circa 1903
Composition aux melon et tomates
signed 'Renoir.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
11 ¾ x 15 ¾ in. (30 x 40 cm.)
Painted circa 1903
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Private collection, France, by 1994.
Anonymous sale, Koller Auktionen, Zurich, 3 November 1995, lot 3417.
Private collection, Europe, by 2005, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Private collection, France, by 1994.
Anonymous sale, Koller Auktionen, Zurich, 3 November 1995, lot 3417.
Private collection, Europe, by 2005, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
A. Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, nouvelle série, Paris, 1919 (illustrated pl. 190).
G.-P. & M. Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. III, 1895-1902, Paris, 2010, no. 2132, p. 240 (illustrated; titled 'Étude, le melon (melon et tomates)' and dated 'circa 1900-1902').
G.-P. & M. Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. III, 1895-1902, Paris, 2010, no. 2132, p. 240 (illustrated; titled 'Étude, le melon (melon et tomates)' and dated 'circa 1900-1902').
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.
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