Pierre-Auguste RENOIR (1841-1919) - Lot 34

Pierre-Auguste RENOIR (1841-1919) Roses, circa 1910 Oil on canvas, signed lower right. (Repainting of four elements, carried out by the dealer Ambroise Vollard). 21 x 8 cm Provenance: Private collection, Paris A year before Renoir's death in 1918, the art dealer Ambroise Vollard carefully photographed the paintings in the painter's studio, many of which were sketches and studies, often on the same canvas. These include bathers, landscapes, portraits and flowers often found in Renoir's great compositions. In 1919, Ambroise Vollard proceeded to cut up these large canvases, creating fragments imbued with the painter's spontaneity. Another painter, Albert André, remarked that "contemplating a single fragment, one feels a joy similar to that which one experiences in front of a fresco, a stained-glass window, an evening or a sculpture" and that "these sketches are what he prefers, it is there that he puts everything of himself, deploying all his audacity" (1925). Bibliography: - Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Perre-Auguste Renoir, Paris 1918, t. II, p. 38, bottom right. - Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir : Catalog raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles 1903-1910, Bernheim jeune, Paris 2012, t. IV, reproduced at no. 3199 with title and date Etudes, tete de femme, roses, nu - vers 1910.