Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Provenance
PROVENANCE
Estate of the artist (until at least 1922).
Dr. Franz Meyer, Zurich.
Galerie Aktuaryus, Zurich (circa 1937).
Emil Georg Bührle, Zurich (acquired from the above on 31 May 1937).
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London (acquired from the above, 1958).
David Lloyd and Carmen M. Kreeger, Washington, D.C. (acquired from the above, 1960).
Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York (inv. no. 16187-D).
Lorraine Pritzker, Chicago (acquired from the above on 21 June 1978).
Private Collection (by descent from above, circa 1996).
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (acquired from the above).
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2002.
Private Collection
EXHIBITED
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Auslandische Kunst in Zürich, July-September 1943, p. 58, no. 643 (titled, La femme du peintre).
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Ausstellung europäische Kunst, 13.-20. Jahrhundart, Aus Zürcher Sammlungen, June-August 1950, p. 27 (titled Die Frau des Malers mit gelbem Turban).
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., XIX and XXth Century European Masters, summer 1958, pp. 8 and 60, no. 51 (illustrated in color p. 61).
Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, La Peinture française, Collections américaines, May-September 1966, p. 69, no. 79.
LITERATURE
A. André and M. Elder, L’Atelier de Renoir, Paris, 1931, vol. II, no. 627 (illustrated, pl. 195).
H. Dorra, The Kreeger Collection, Washington, D.C., 1970, p. 50 (illustrated, p. 51).
M. P. Sharpe, ed., The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger, Richmond, 1976, pp. 226 and 303 (illustrated, p. 227).
G.-P. and M. Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1911-1919, Paris, 2014, vol. V, p. 270, no. 4090 (illustrated).
The Emil Bührle Collection, History, Full Catalogue and 70 Masterpieces, Munich, 2021, pp. 256-257, no. 20 (illustrated).
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.