PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)


Buste de femme signed 'Renoir.' (upper left)oil on canvas36.7 x 28.5cm (14 7/16 x 11 1/4in).Painted in 1911
|This work will be included in the forthcoming Pierre-Auguste Renoir Digital Critical Catalogue, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.ProvenanceAmbroise Vollard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist; until 1919).Etienne Bignou, Paris.J. M. Fontanille Collection, Paris (1978).Private collection, Japan.LiteratureA. Vollard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins, Paris, 1918 (San Francisco, 1989, revised edition), no. 512 (illustrated p. 129).G.-P. & M. Dauberville, Renoir, catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, Vol. III, 1895 - 1902, Paris, 2010, no. 2260 (illustrated p. 323; dated circa 1900).