Property of a Distinguished Private Collector
Fleurs dans un vase
Auction Closed
March 6, 07:55 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841 - 1919
Fleurs dans un vase
signed Renoir. (lower right)
oil on canvas
55.8 by 46 cm. 21 ⅞ by 18 ⅛ in.
Executed circa 1878.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Insti🔯tute, 💯Inc.
This work is sold with the original🦩 vase as pictured in the composition. The vase remained in Renoir’s collection throughout his life and then passed by descent to his great-grandson, Emmanu𒊎el Renoir, before being reunited with the present painting.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the artist🍎 on 30 May 18ꦇ90)
Paul𒐪 Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired fro🎀m the above by 1913)
Private Collection,💖 Paris (acꦛquired by descent from the above)
Drouot Monꦬtaigne, Paris, 27 November 1997, lot 36 (consigned by the above)
Halcyon Gallery, London (acquired circa 2005)
Private Collection, Zurich
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Acquired from th𒐪e 🎃above by the present owner in 2019
Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles,෴ vol. I, Paris, 2007, ཧno. 33, p. 127, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Nature Mortes par Monet, Cézanne, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, A. André, G. D’Espagnat, 1908, no. 36
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Quelques œuvres importantes de Corot à Van Gogh, 1934, no. 42 (dated 1888)
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Hommage à Renoir, 1958, no. 9
Munich, Städtische Galerie, Auguste Renoir, 1958, no. 5, p. 63; p. 13, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Renoir Intime, 1969, no. 5