(Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes/ Nice)
Golfe, mer, falaises vertes, 1895, cachet signature “Renoir”,
oil on canvas, 27 x 40 cm, framed

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.

Provenance:
Renoir succession
The Independent Gallery, London (label on the reverse)
Collection Katherine Emily Maclean (1903-1977), Jersey
Sotheby’s London, 24 April 1963, lot 73
Sotheby’s London, 29 April 1964, lot 49
Mrs. K. Dorfmann Collection
Sotheby’s London, 5 December 1990, lot 135
Mercier & Cie, Lille, 19 February 1995, lot 129
Sotheby’s London, 4 December 1996, lot 345
European Private Collection

Literature:
A. André, M. Bernheim-Jeune (ed.), L’Atelier de Renoir, Paris 1931, vol. I,
no. 99, pl. 35 with ill.
G. Patrice, M. Dauberville, Renoir. Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels et aquarelles 1895–1902, vol. 3, Paris 2014, p. 107, no. 1868 with ill.

“If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model,
your imagination will only
supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions,
all on the same tree.
No two leaves are exactly the same.
The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.”
Pierre Auguste Renoir