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Studies of Pierre Renoir; His Mother, Aline Charigot; Nudes; and Landscape
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1885–86
Provenance
Ownership history
- Probably Dr. Prat, Renoir’s physician at Cagnes [according to New York 1958]. Mr. and Mrs. Lazarus Phillips, Montreal, bought through John Rewald in Paris in France in October 1958 [according to Ivan E. Phillips’ letter of April 27, 1982, in curatorial file]; by descent to the Phillips family, Montreal; given to the Art Institute, 1983.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, Renoir: Degas: A loan exhibition of drawings, pastels, sculptures, November 7–December 6, 1958, cat. 55, pl. 37, as Ten Studies, 1888.
- Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18 – December 17, 1985, cat. 36 (color ill.), traveled to Fukoka Museum, January 5–February 2, 1986 and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4 – April 13, 1986, as Studies of Nudes, the Artist’s Children and His Wife, 1888.
- Brussels, Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR), Rubens and His Legacy, September 25, 2014-January 4, 2015; London, Royal Academy of Arts, January 24-April 10, 2015.
Literature
Published references
- John Rewald, The History of Impressionism (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1961), p. 582 (ill.), as Studies of Nudes, the Artist’s Children, and His Wife, c. 1888.
- Jean Renoir, “Renoir,” in Look (November 6, 1962), p. 51 (ill.), as Studies of Nudes, the Artist’s Children and His Wife.
- Jean Renoir, Tous (June 1963).
- Douglas Druick, Renoir (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pp. 66, 100 (pl. 19), 111.
- Royal Academy of Arts, London (2014), Rubens and His Legacy, p. 167 and 169.
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