Robert Ryman Part 17

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Paysage de Provence, Cagnes
1910 – oil on canvas
12.2 x 19 in. – 31.1 x 48.3 cm. Signed lower left
This work will be included in the catalogue critique being prepared by the Wildenstein Institute from the Francois Daulte, Durand-Ruel, Venturi, Vollard & Wildstein achieves.
Provenance:
Gallery Thanhauser, Munich and NY
Estate of Mary S. Higgins
Ronne and Joseph S. Wohl, NY
Sotheby’s NY 11/10/2000
EXIBITED
Munich, Gallery Thannhauser 1927
Roslyn, NY Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, The LI Collection, A Century of Art, 1880-1980 1982, no. 3
Huntington, NY – The Heckerscher Museum, Old Master – Early Modern:Works from Long Island Private Collection,1987

Literature
Julius Meier-Graefe, Renoir, 1929, no 340, ill. p 351
After 1900, Renoir and his family spent each winter and spring on the Mediterranean, staying at Le Cannet in 1902-1903907 they purchased Les Cfollettes, an old farm situated in an olive grove. John House described the importance of the Cagnes landscape in Renoirs work at this time: “The estate provided him with hisprinciple subjects for landscape: he focused sometimes on the panoramic view of it from the coast & the old town of Cagnes, sometimes on its ancient, twisting olive trees, and often on the old farmhouse on the estate.” (John House, Renoir, London,1985, p.27)