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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:NA Estimated At:2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD
Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Auction Date:2015 Apr 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:236 Commercial St., Suite 100, Boston, Massachusetts, 02109, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS in French, signed “A. Renoir,” one page, 5.25 x 8.25, no date but likely circa 1880s. Letter to art critic and collector Charles Ephrussi. In part (translated): "Impossible for me to have lunch. I’m at Versailles, but as I know that you do not go until tonight, I would like to shake your hand before your departure. I will come between 5 and 6:30.” In very good condition, with overall toning and foxing, and a few small chips to edges. Renoir was actively selling to Ephrussi, an important patron of the Impressionists, during the early to mid 1880s. He has been identified as one of the subjects of Renoir’s famous 1881 painting ‘Luncheon of the Boating Party,’ portrayed in the background as a man in a top hat. A great letter of artistic significance.