Auction on
22 June 2021 - 14:00 (CEST) -
51, rue Alfred-Curtel - 13010 Marseille
At the height of his career, the Impressionist master made one of his most beautiful and vibrant paintings of women. A provenance punctuated by the 20th-century art market’s greatest names joins the omnipresence of his sensual model.
Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Tête de femme, fleur dans les cheveux (YoungWoman, Flowers in Her Hair), c. 1900, oil on canvas, 33.5 x 30 cm/13.19 x 11.81 in. Estimate: €180,000/250,000
Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Tête de femme, fleur dans les cheveux (YoungWoman, Flowers in Her Hair), c. 1900, oil on canvas, 33.5 x 30 cm/13.19 x 11.81 in. Estimate: €180,000/250,000
Auguste Renoir painted the many faces of women in countless portraits: the theme almost obsessively inspired his late masterpieces. Perhaps this was on account of his marriage on April 14, 1890, to his favorite model and companion, Aline Charigot, who officially became the mother of his children and appears in about 15 paintings, including three as a mother. Other muses came after her. All of them…
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