Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Les deux fillettes, 1893
[Le Chapeau épinglé, Summer Hats]
Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm
Signed lower right: Renoir
Dauberville no. 995
Provenance
Henri Bernstein, Paris (until 1910 (1) ▪ Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1910) (2) ▪ Jean Laroche,
Paris (1910–1911) (3) ▪ Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris (1911) (4) ▪ Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (5) ▪
Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago (1913–[d.] 1932) (6) ▪ Art Institute of Chicago (1932–1948) (7) ▪ Paul
Rosenberg, New York (1948–1952/53) (8) ▪ Emil Bührle, Zurich (18 September 1953 until [d.] 28
November 1956) (9) ▪ Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection,
Zurich, no. 89 (1960).
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Dauberville no. 995.
Acquired from the above on 18 June 1910 for FF 6.500, Dauberville no. 995.
Acquired from the above on 8 October 1910, Dauberville no. 995.
Bought back from the above on 17 January 1911 for FF 13.500 and subsequently taken over by BernheimJeune fils, Dauberville no. 995.
Dauberville no. 995
Acquired from the above in 1913, Seven Centuries of Painting, A Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters,
California Palace of the Legion of Honour & M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco 1939–40, no.
137.
Gift from the above, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures, Lent from American
Collections, Art Institute of Chicago 1933, no. 342.
Acquired from the above on 15 May 1948 for $ 20.000, when de-accessioned by the Art Institute of Chicago,
Archive Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York, Inventory Notebook, September 1952, pp. 8–9; AStEGB, Letter
from Paul Rosenberg, New York, to Emil Bührle, 22 September 1952, accompanying individual invoices for 10
pictures which Bührle has acquired from him.
Acquired from the above for $ 65.000 minus a 10% discount ($ 6.500) = $ 58.500, AStEGB, Invoice from
Paul Rosenberg, New York, made out to Emil Bührle, 22 September 1952; Letter from Emil Bührle to Paul
Rosenberg, Zurich, 6 May 1953, accompanying a check in payment of 4 pictures and scheduling payments for
3 pictures still to be effected, including Renoir, "Summer Hats"; [2nd] Invoice from Paul Rosenberg, New York,
made out to Emil Bührle, 14 September 1953, for 3 pictures valued at $ 138.600, including Renoir, "Summer
Hats", and deducting $ 19.220 for payment already effected; Payment order from Emil Bührle to Industrieund Handelsbank, Zurich, 18 September 1953 ordering transfer of $ 119.380 to Paul Rosenberg;
Correspondence regarding the import of the 10 pictures to Switzerland, 12 January 1956–22 June 1956, the
Renoir figuring in the papers as "Renoir, The Flowered Hats", with a declared value of $ 12.500.
Exhibitions
Exhibition of Paintings, Edouard Manet, Pierre Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
1924, no. 34. ▪ A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures, Lent from American
Collections, Art Institute of Chicago 1933, no. 342. ▪ Seven Centuries of Painting, A Loan Exhibition
of Old and Modern Masters, California Palace of the Legion of Honour & M.H. de Young Memorial
Museum, San Francisco 1939–40, no. 137. ▪ Renoir, Cézanne, Picasso und ihr Galerist Ambroise
Vollard, Museum Langmatt, Baden 2006, p. 53. ▪ Zandomeneghi, De Nittis, Renoir, I pittori della
felicità, Pinacoteca Giuseppe de Nittis (Palazzo della Marra), Barletta 2007, no. 21. ▪ Renoir, La
maturità tra classico e moderno, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome 2008, no. 32. ▪ Renoir, Tradition
and Innovation, National Art Center, Tokyo; National Museum of Art, Osaka 2010, no. 79 (exhibited
in Osaka only).
References
Georges Rivière, Renoir et ses amis, Paris 1921, p. 90 (ill.). ▪ M. C., "Renoirs in the Institute", in
Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago (19) 1925, p. 47 (ill.). ▪ Julius Meier-Graefe, Renoir, Leipzig
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1929, fig. 234. ▪ Peter H. Feist, Auguste Renoir, Leipzig 1961, pp. 52, 66, fig. 53. ▪ Guy-Patrice
Dauberville, Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et
aquarelles, vol. 2, 1882–1894, Paris 2009, no. 995 (ill.). ▪ Lukas Gloor, "Renoir en Suisse, Une
réception fluctuante/Renoir in der Schweiz, Im Auf und Ab der Publikumsgunst", in Pierre-Auguste
Renoir, Revoir Renoir, (exh. cat.) Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny 2014, p. 37.
Catalogues of the Bührle Collection: 1966 & 1971, no. 89; 1973/86, no. 65; 1994/95, p. 40;
2004/05, no. 95. ▪ Exhibitions of the Bührle Collection: Zurich 1958, no. 174; Berlin 1958, no. 57;
Munich 1958–59, no. 135; Edinburgh 1961, no. 51; London 1961, no. 51.
Catalogues, exhibitions and articles cited in full see http://www.buehrle.ch/pdf/egbcat.pdf.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
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