LOT DETAILS

Materials:

sanguine and white chalk on paper

Size Notes:

24 1?8 x 18 7?8 in. (61 x 47.8 cm.)

Description:

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Literature:

A. Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1918, vol. I, p. 38, no. 152 (recto illustrated; titled Femme lisant). G.-P. and M. Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1882-1894, Paris, 2009, vol. II, p. 531, no. 1553 (illustrated; dated circa 1909 and titled Femme lisant (recto) et Portrait d’un enfant (verso)).

Provenance:

Amboise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the artist, by 1911). Robert de Galéa, Paris (by descent from the above, circa 1939). Hugo Perls, New York; Estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 19 May 1983, lot 213. Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.