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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Jeune femme brune assise, 1916.
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Stima:
€ 150,000 / $ 160,500 Risultato:
€ 190,500 / $ 203,835 ( commissione inclusa)
Jeune femme brune assise. 1916.
Oil on canvas.
Upper right with the signature stamp. 26 x 18 cm (10.2 x 7 in).
Find more works from this remarkable private collection in our 19th Century Art Sale on Saturday, December 9, 2023 (see also our auction preview "Humor, Poetry, Beauty. Works from a German Private Collection").
• Madeleine Bruno, muse and most important model of his late creative phase, depicted in back view in a bright rosé at the villa near Nice.
• In terms of motif and color, woman and rose, central motifs in Renoir's late work, merge to pure painting.
• Renoir attained his characteristic luminous, pearlescent color in the so-called "période nacrée".
• Paintings of Madeleine are in important Impressionist collections, such as "La liseuese blanche" and "Les baigneuses" at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
PROVENANCE: From the artist's etsate
Roger Bernheim, Paris.
Robert Kahn-Sriber, Paris.
Private collection Germany (acquired in 1975, Sotheby's, London, July 1, 1975, lot 34).
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.
LITERATURE: Guy-Patrice Dauberville, Michel Dauberville, Renoir. Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. 5: 1911-1919 & Ier supplément, Paris 2014, p. 320, no. 4183 (fig.).
Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paris 1918, t. II, p. 17 (fig.).
Sotheby’s, London, auction on July 1, 1975, lot 34 (fig.).
Ambroise Vollard (ed.), Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Paintings, pastels and drawings, San Francisco 1989, p. 185 (fig. 748).
Oil on canvas.
Upper right with the signature stamp. 26 x 18 cm (10.2 x 7 in).
Find more works from this remarkable private collection in our 19th Century Art Sale on Saturday, December 9, 2023 (see also our auction preview "Humor, Poetry, Beauty. Works from a German Private Collection").
• Madeleine Bruno, muse and most important model of his late creative phase, depicted in back view in a bright rosé at the villa near Nice.
• In terms of motif and color, woman and rose, central motifs in Renoir's late work, merge to pure painting.
• Renoir attained his characteristic luminous, pearlescent color in the so-called "période nacrée".
• Paintings of Madeleine are in important Impressionist collections, such as "La liseuese blanche" and "Les baigneuses" at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
PROVENANCE: From the artist's etsate
Roger Bernheim, Paris.
Robert Kahn-Sriber, Paris.
Private collection Germany (acquired in 1975, Sotheby's, London, July 1, 1975, lot 34).
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.
LITERATURE: Guy-Patrice Dauberville, Michel Dauberville, Renoir. Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. 5: 1911-1919 & Ier supplément, Paris 2014, p. 320, no. 4183 (fig.).
Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paris 1918, t. II, p. 17 (fig.).
Sotheby’s, London, auction on July 1, 1975, lot 34 (fig.).
Ambroise Vollard (ed.), Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Paintings, pastels and drawings, San Francisco 1989, p. 185 (fig. 748).
Pierre-Auguste Renoir tenderly captured his young model Madeleine Bruno with a dreamy look and seemingly lost in the moment in the glowing light of a summer afternoon. She sat for the master for the first time in 1904/05, when she was only seven years old, henceforth she would remain one of Renoir's favorite muses until his death in 1919. After the death of his wife Aline Charigot in 1916, and in the course of his rapidly increasing arthritis, due to which he finally moved from Paris to the warmer climate of the Côte d'Azur in 1907, she supported the artist with both her joy of life as well as with practical things like the preparation of the painting tools. This close bond between painter and model becomes particularly noticeable in "Jeune femme brune assise" from 1916. It is a rare depiction with her hair pinned up in a fashionable chignon. The artist put focus on the bright, pearlescent colors of the back view, which was to be so crucial for this "période nacrée". Along with Edgar Degas, Renoir was one of the impressionists who mainly devoted their art to figure painting and portraiture. Throughout his life, he portrayed actresses, housemaids, relatives, bourgeoisie ladies or his lovers. Despite a lot of bare skin and a high degree of sensuality, his depictions are never salacious. For their unique intensity, his works can well be described as a timeless homage to female beauty. His depictions of roses should be seen from the same angle. In his late creative period, this passion saw a new climax with the works created in his studio at Villa Les Collettes. While a lot of men fought in the First World War, Renoir was surrounded almost exclusively by femininity on his country estate. With a fresh naturalness, his painting amalgamates in delicate transparencies to form a delicate, impressionistic texture of color structures. Although painting and holding the brush became increasingly difficult for him, his vivid and casual painting style does not reveal any of his pain. Almost translucent, Renoir achieved a silky, shimmering glaze that is reminiscent of his beginnings as a porcelain painter. The painter liked working in his garden, so he embedded Madeleine in a weightless spectrum of green and yellow tones. A shimmering light full of warm red and golden yellow tones harmoniously falls on the body, a prominent feature of his late work. The delicate and dreamy appearance of the “Jeune femme brune assise” completely captivates us. [AW]
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Jeune femme brune assise, 1916.
Olio su tela
Stima:
€ 150,000 / $ 160,500 Risultato:
€ 190,500 / $ 203,835 ( commissione inclusa)