Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the artist before 1911; titled Buste de jeune fille with inventory no. 914)
Paul Rosenberg, Paris (titled Tête, La Chevelure with inventory no. 3717)
Raphael Gérard, Paris (titled Buste with inventory no. 2489)
Marguerite Proton de la Chapelle, Paris (acquired from the above by 1 February 1941)
Mamie Coulon, Paris
Estate of Mamie Coulon (by descent from above)
Private Collection, London (acquired from the above in 1982)
Sotheby’s London, 21 June 2005, lot 312 (consigned by the above; titled Jeune femme au buste nu and dated 1902-03)
Private Collection (acquired at the above)
Private Collection, France (donated from the above in 2019)
Exhibitions
Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Un demi-siècle de peinture française 1900-1950, 1950, no. 106 (titled Tête de femme)
Literature
A. Vollard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins, Paris, 1918, no. 254, p. 64, illus. (titled Torse nu de femme)
This work is accompanied by a letter of attestation from the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, signed by Elizabeth Gorayeb, under number 23.06.22 / 21349 and dated 26 June 2023