Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
An Impressionist Discovery: Property from a Private Collection
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Roses dans un vase de cristal
Auction Closed
May 16, 12:52 AM GMT
Estimate
2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
An Impressionist Discovery: Property from a Private Collection
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841-1919
Roses dans un vase de cristal
signed Renoir. (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 ¾ by 21 ½ in.
65.5 by 54.5 cm.
Executed circa 1879.
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.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris (acquired by 1917)
Jos Hessel, Paris (acquired circa 1920 and until at least 1933)
Etienne Bignou, Paris
Ivor Churchill, London (acquired by 1937)
Millicent Huttleston Rogers, New York
Arturo Peralta Ramos, Taos (acquired from the above by 1955)
Alex Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., London
Acquired from above in 1981 by the present owner
Tristan Bernard, "Jos Hessel," La Renaissance, no. 1, January 1930, p. 7, illustrated (titled Les Roses)
Elda Fezzi, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Renoir, période impressionniste 1869-1883, Paris, 1985, no. 373, p. 105, illustrated (titled Roses in un vaso e sparse)
Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles 1858-1881, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. 17, p. 117, illustrated (dated 1879)
Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Exposition d'art français du XIXe siècle, 1917, no. 53, p. 20 (titled Les Roses)
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Tableaux, pastels, dessins par Renoir (1841–1919), 1920, no. 23 (titled Bouquet de roses)
Paris, Chambre syndicale de la curiosité et des beaux-arts, L'art d'aujourdui, 1925
Paris, Salle de la Renaissance, Exposition d’oeuvres des 19e et 20e siècles provenant de collections particulières, 1929, no. 124, p. 19 (titled Les Roses)
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, 1932, no. 452, p. 213 (titled Les Roses)
New York, Knoedler Galleries, "Flowers" by French Painters (XIX–XX Centuries), 1932, no. 12 (titled Roses dans un broc en verre and dated circa 1880)
Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Renoir, 1933, no. 71, p. 33 (titled Les Roses and dated 1883)
London, Rosenberg & Helft, Ltd., Loan Exhibition of Renoir in Aid of the Contemporary Art Society, 1937, no. 4, pl. 3, illustrated (titled Roses, Vase Cristal and dated 1880)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Art, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1841-1919, Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, 1955, no. 23
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Renoir, 1958, no. 27, p. 41, illustrated (titled Les Roses)
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Renoir: In Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Renoir's Death, 1969, no. 32, n.p, illustrated (titled Roses)
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Masterpieces in Bloom: A Loan Exhibition of Flower Paintings for the Benefit of the New York Botanical Garden, 1973, no. 56, illustrated (titled Roses)
