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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)
Petite fille avec sa poupée
signed 'Renoir' (upper left)
oil on canvas
16 1⁄8 x 13 in. (41 x 33.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1897-1900
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris, by whom acquired from the artist, by 1919.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., London.
Galerie Bignou, Paris & New York, by 1933.
Private collection, New York.
Raphaël Gérard, Paris.
Private collection, Paris, by whom acquired from the above on 9 December 1937, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
A. Vollard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir Tableaux, pastels et dessins, vol. I, Paris, 1918, no. 471, p. 118 (illustrated).
New York Evening Post, 28 October 1933 (illustrated).
G.-P. & M. Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. III, 1895,-1902, Paris, 2010, no. 2350, p. 34 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Knoedler, Paintings from the Ambroise Vollard Collection, November - December 1933, no. 36 (titled 'La fillette à la poupée'); this exhibition later travelled to New Orleans, Arts and Crafts Club, December 1933.
Special Notice
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Post Lot Text
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.