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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/Dau-
berville, Michel: Renoir. Catalogue raisonné
des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarel-
les, 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 mo-
ved 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 pre-
sent 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
(€ 259 260 / 324 070)