Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

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.

This work will be included in the second supplement to the Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles de Renoir being prepared by Guy-Patrice and Floriane Dauberville, published by Bernheim-Jeune.

Albert Rothbart (Roothbert), a German financier and partner at Hallgarten & Company, moved to New York from Frankfurt at the turn of the 20th century. After growing up in a family of art collectors, Rothbart amassed a notable collection of his own featuring Egyptian antiquities and tribal art, in addition to a myriad of Impressionist and Modern European and American masters including Stuart Davis, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, among others. In the early 1930s, Rothbart met and married Antonie "Tony" von Horn, a photographer for Harpers and Vanity Fair. The two were involved in the New York art scene, with close relationships with Hilla von Rebay, Frank Crowninshield and Arnold Genthe, and European artist emigrés including George Grosz and Alexander Archipenko. Rothbart described his chief pleasure of collecting as a means to "create an atmosphere which would add rhythm and color to the humdrum of daily life."

Please note this work is sold without a frame.