Lot 3215 - Z40 Impressionist & Modern Art - Friday, 24. June 2016, 02.00 PM
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR
(Limoges 1841 - 1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer)
Paysage au bord de la mer. Circa 1905.
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower right: Renoir.
32.5 x 40.5 cm.
Provenance:
- Galerie Max Bollag, Zurich (bought in Cagnes 1969).
- Galerie Willy Klopfer
- Private collection, Switzerland (bought at the Gallery above)
Literature: Dauberville, Guy Patrice/Dauberville, Michel: Renoir. Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris 2010, vol. V, no. 04468, p. 517/518 (with ill.).
Although Renoir primarily defined himself as a figure painter, landscape and nature also played an important, central role from the beginning of his artistic career. The present work belongs to Renoir‘s later oeuvre and shows characteristics to this effect. Around 1902 the Renoir family moved to Cagnes in order to make Renoir’s serious illness more bearable in the mild temperatures of the south of France. The artist had already been fascinated by the landscape there and executed various paintings amidst its splendour. The present work shows one of Renoir’s favourite views. Massive trees frame the view of the vast, blue sea. To the right, two ladies sit hidden under a tree, themselves enjoying the idyllic surroundings. The painting is infused with a sweetness and radiates a sense of inner peace and serenity through its harmonious composition and soft palette, which express Renoir‘s positive disposition despite his developing illness.
CHF 280 000 / 350 000 | (€ 288 660 / 360 820)
Sold for CHF 324 500 (including buyer’s premium)
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