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Auguste Renoir

Suzanne Valadon, c. 1885

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 41.3 x 31.8 cm (16 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.)

framed: 64.1 x 53.3 x 6 cm (25 1/4 x 21 x 2 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Chester Dale Collection

Accession Number

1963.10.60

Artists / Makers

Auguste Renoir (artist) French, 1841 - 1919

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Inscription

upper right: renoir

Provenance

(Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris); his heirs; (Martin Fabiani, Paris);[1] sold March 1950 to Chester Dale [1882-1962], New York;[2] bequest 1963 to NGA.

[1] After Vollard's death, his brother Lucian sold his share of the collection to Fabiani, who had worked with the dealer and was the executor of his will. Fabiani shipped the pictures from France, but the shipment was confiscated in Bermuda by British authorities. The pictures spent the war years at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, from where they were released to Fabiani and another dealer, Eduoard Jonas, in 1949. On the Vollard collection see: Lynn Nicholas, The Rape of Europa, 1995, pp. 92-93, 425; Nancy Caron Karrels, "Reconstructing a Wartime Journey: The Vollard-Fabiani Collection, 1940–1949," International Journal of Cultural Property 22, no. 4 (2015): 505-526, published on-line 8 December 2015: doi:10.1017/S0940739115000296; Maryline.Assante di Panzillo, “The Dispersal of the Vollard Collection,” in Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, Rebecca Rabinow, ed., exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2006: 259–262.

[2] Date of purchase according to Chester Dale papers, copies in NGA curatorial files. The painting was shipped from France by Rene Haas, acting for Fabiani, according to consular paperwork (copies NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Dale, Chester
Fabiani, Martin
Vollard, Ambroise

Exhibition History

1965: The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1918: Vollard, Ambroise. Tableaux, Pastels & Dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Paris, 1918: 7, repro.

1965: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 111, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 112.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 100, repro.

1971: Daulte, Francois. Auguste Renoir, catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre peint. Vol.I. Figures 1860-1890. Lausanne, 1971: no. 444

1972: Fezzi, Elda. L'opera completa di Renoir nel period impressionista. Milan, 1972: no. 598.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 294, repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 338, repro.

1985: Fezzi, Elda. L'opera complete di Renoir nel period impressionista 1869-1883. Paris, 1985:no. 568, repro.

1997: Bailey, Colin B. Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an age.Yale University Press New Haven and London, in association with National Gallery of Canada Ottawa, 1997: 314, n. 32.