PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR (Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer) Bouquet... Lot 3206

PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR (Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer) Bouquet de fleurs au pichet de terre. 1885. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right: Renoir. 41 × 33.4 cm. We would like to thank the Wildenstein-Plattner Institute for confirming the authenticity of the work, New York, October 2022. Provenance: - probably Galerie Barbazanges, Paris. - Swiss private collection, by descent from the above to the present owner. "When painting flowers, my brain rests. I do not spend the mental effort on them as I do when standing before a model. When I paint flowers, I put down tones, I boldly try out values, unconcerned as to whether I am botching a canvas. I would not dare to do that with a figure, for fear of spoiling everything. And the experience I gain from these experimentations, I apply it later to my [figure] paintings."(translated from German: quoted in: Götz Adriani, Renoir Ausstellungskatalog, Tübigen 1996, p. 274).