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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Lot 305 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SOUTH AMERICAN COLLECTION

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Esquisse de fleurs

Closed5 May 2011

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Esquisse de fleurs
stamped with signature 'Renoir.' (Lugt 2137b; lower right)
oil on canvas
17 x 17¾ in. (43.2 x 45.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1910-1914

Estate of the artist.
Galerie Urban, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, November 1963.

Specialist note

This work will be included in volume III or subsequent volumes of the Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles de Renoir being prepared by Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville published by Bernheim-Jeune.

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue critique of Pierre-Auguste Renoir being prepared by the Wildenstein Institute, as established from the archives of Franois Daulte, Durand-Ruel, Venturi, Vollard and Wildenstein.