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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR
Le Chapeau Épinglé (2e planche)
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Color lithograph on cream laid paper, 1898. 600x488 mm;
23
5
/
8
x19
1
/
4
inches, full margins. Edition of 200. Printed by Auguste
Clot, Paris. Published byVollard, Paris.A very good impression of
this important lithograph with strong colors.
Renoir (1841-1919) was, along with Degas, Monet, and Pissarro,
a founder of the
Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes, Peintres,
Sculpteurs, Graveurs
and a key organizer of the 1870s Impressionist
exhibitions. He is best known for his renditions of the sensuous
and monumental bathing nudes that he produced from the 1880s
onward, many of which were inspired by the works of Titian,
Rubens, and 18th-century French painters such as Boucher and
Fragonard.
Like many of his contemporaries, Renoir embraced printmaking
as a medium that allowed for more freedom of expression and
experimentation. AmbroiseVollard, the eminent Parisian dealer and
publisher, andAuguste Clot, the famed lithography printer,were both
extremely instrumental in Renoir’s foray into printmaking. They
greatly encouraged and facilitated his practice of the medium. Vollard
met Renoir during the height of Renoir’s career and saw the
opportunity for lithography to help disseminate the artist’s ever
popular work, and Clot worked closely with Renoir to masterfully
capture the delicate quality of his pastels in color lithography.
Renoir began producing lithographs and etchings in the late 1880s
and created an
oeuvre
over the following two decades consisting of
25 etchings and 29 lithographs, many of them commissioned for
various albums or books. His most famous prints reproduce popular
compositions he had established in earlier paintings.The current lot
is based on an 1893 oil and pastel painting which represents the
artist Berthe Morisot’s daughter (see lot 74) pinning a flower to her
cousin’s hat.The same subject was reproduced in a series of etchings
in 1894 (see lot 58A). Delteil 30.
[30,000/50,000]