PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AUSTRIAN COLLECTION






PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)


Nature morte aux pêches signed 'Renoir' (lower left)oil on canvas20.3 x 30.5cm (8 x 12in).Painted circa 1905
|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.ProvenanceAmbroise Vollard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist; until 1919).Galerie Beyeler, Basel.Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 February 1950, lot 39.Stavros S. Niarchos Collection, Paris; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 28 June 1972, lot 21.Blair Lang, Toronto (acquired at the above sale).Acquired from the above by the present owner (circa 1990).LiteratureA. Vollard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins, Paris, 1918 (San Francisco, 1989, revised edition), no. 425 (illustrated p. 106).G.-P. & M. Dauberville, Renoir, catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, Vol. IV, 1903 - 1910, Paris, 2012, no. 2743 (illustrated p. 54).