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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 5, 2025 | Christie's | London | 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale | 50 | $****** - ****** | Le chapeau fleuri |
paintings
65.1 x 50.2 cm (25.63 x 19.75 in)
oil on canvas
Ambroise Vollard, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist by 1919.
Succession Ambroise Vollard, France, from whom dispossessed in 1939.
Martin Fabiani, Paris, between 1939-1940.
Étienne Bignou, Paris & New York, by 1941 (no. 3104).
Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York.
Otto Wertheimer, Paris, by June 1954.
Edmond & Jeanne Lévy-Ditisheim, Basel, by whom acquired from the above in the 1950s, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Please note that the present work is being offered for sale pursuant to a settlement agreement between the current owners and the heirs of Ambroise Vollard. The settlement agreement resolves the dispute over ownership of the work and title will pass to the successful bidder.
New York, Bignou Gallery, Centenary Exhibition, Renoir 1841-1941, March 1941, no. 14.
Los Angeles, Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Renoir, 1841-1919 , September - October 1943, no. 4.
Paris, Museé des Art Décoratifs, Chefs-d"oeuvre de la curiosité du monde: 2 ème exposition internationale de la CINOA, June - September 1954, no. 39 (illustrated pl. 31; titled "La première communion").
Basel, Kunstmuseum, on long-term loan from 2002 to 2022.
A. Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. I, Paris, 1918, no. 587, p. 148 (illustrated; image before historic restoration).
H. Devree, "New York Letter" in Magazine of Art , vol. 34, no. 4, Washington, April 1941, p. 207 (illustrated; image before historic restoration and titled "Deux personnages").
Y. Amic, "Chefs-d"oeuvre de la Curiosité du Monde" in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 96, no. 616, London, July 1954, p. 228 (titled "First Communion").
A. Vollard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Paintings, Pastels and Drawings, San Francisco, 1989, no. 587, p. 148 (illustrated; image before historic restoration and titled "Deux personnages").
G.-P. & M. Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles , vol. III, 1985-1902 , Paris, 2010, no. 2072, p. 212 (illustrated; image before historic restoration, dated " circa 1900" and titled "Deux personnages").
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)
Le chapeau fleuri
oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 19 ¾ in. (65 x 50 cm.)
Painted in 1895-1898
