Graziella

Pierre-Auguste Renoir French, 1841-1919
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Graziella

1896

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841-1919

French

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Oil on canvas

Unframed: 25 3/4 × 21 1/4 inches (65.4 × 54 cm) Framed: 34 × 29 3/4 × 2 3/4 inches (86.4 × 75.6 × 7 cm)

Paintings

European Modern Art to 1970

City of Detroit Purchase

20.111

Copyright Not Evaluated

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Signed, lower right: Renoir

Provenance

by 1920, (Durand Ruel Gallery, Paris, France and New York, New York, USA) [stock # 9433, dated as 1896];
1920-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Poland, R. "French Impressionistic Paintings Acquired." Bulletin of the DIA 2, 8 (1921): pp. 70-73 (ill.).

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 185 (ill.).

Valentiner, W.R. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Modern French Painting. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts, 1931, p. 24, no. 102.

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 109, no. 185.

Renoir. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, 1955, p. 56, no. 77. [dated as ca. 1910]

Leymarie, J. The Spirit of the Letter in Painting. Kansas City, 1961, p. 87 (ill.).

Impressionism and Its Roots. Exh. cat., University of Iowa Gallery of Art. Iowa City, 1964, pp. 6-7, 49-50, no. 29 (ill.). [dated as ca. 1907]

Renoir: The Gentle Rebel. Exh. cat., Wildenstein Gallery. New York, 1974, no. 55 (ill.). [dated as 1896]

Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts: Masters of Impressionism and Modern Art. Exh. cat., Sogo Museum of Art. Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, 2001, pp. 35, 70, no. 14 (ill.).

Idol of the Moderns: Pierre-Auguste Renoir and American Painting. Exh. cat., San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, 2002, pp. 41, 77, no. 7 (ill.).

Renoir. La maturita tra classico e moderno. Exh. cat., Complesso del Vittoriano. Rome, 2008, p. 194, no. 36.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Graziella, 1896, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 20.111.

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