Bouquet of Chrysanthemums, 1881, Auguste Renoir, French - Stretc

Bouquet of Chrysanthemums, 1881, Auguste Renoir, French - Stretc

Bouquet of Chrysanthemums, 1881, Auguste Renoir, French. Historical artwork in public domain. Paintings by masters from the golden age of classical art. Colors may vary slightly during the printing process.

Renoir felt that he had greater freedom to experiment in still lifes than in figure paintings. quot;When I paint flowers, I feel free to try out tones and values and worry less about destroying the canvas,quot; he told the writer Georges Rivière. quot;I would not do this with a figure painting since there I would care about destroying the work.quot;

Title: Bouquet of Chrysanthemums
Artist: Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer)
Date: 1881
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscription: Signed (lower right): Renoir.

References on the original

Arsène Alexandre. Collection Kélékian: Tableaux de l#39;école française moderne. Paris, 1920, unpaginated, pl. 58 , as previously in the collection of M. Jos Hessèle [sic].

quot;Cézanne Leads the French Modernists.quot; New York Times (February 1, 1922), p. 27, lists the picture as number 134 in the Kelekian auction that year and notes that it sold for $4,400 to Durand-Ruel.

quot;Entire Kelekian Art Collection Brings $254,870.quot; New York Herald (February 1, 1922), p. 8.

François Fosca. Renoir. Paris, 1923, p. 62, pl. 30, tentatively dates it 1901.

Harry B. Wehle. Renoir: A Special Exhibition of His Paintings. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1937, unpaginated, no. 31, ill., dates it about 1880–82.

Alfred M. Frankfurter. Renoir, Centennial Loan Exhibition, 1841–1941. Exh. cat., Duveen Galleries. New York, 1941, p. 138, no. 34, ill. p. 56, dates it 1880–82.

Renoir. Exh. cat., New York Wildenstein. 1950, p. 41, no. 32, ill. p. 54, dates it 1881.

M. Roy Fisher. The Annenberg Collection. Exh. cat., Tate Gallery. London, 1969, unpaginated, no. 27, ill. (color), dates it 1881.

Elda Fezzi. L#39;opera completa di Renoir. [reprint ed., 1981]. Milan, 1972, pp. 111–12, no. 504, ill., dates it 1880–82.

Peter Mitchell. Great Flower Painters: Four Centuries of Floral Art. Woodstock, N.Y., 1973, p. 211, colorpl. 304.

Colin B. Bailey in Masterpieces of Impressionism Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection. Ed. Colin B. Bailey, Joseph J. Rishel, and Mark Rosenthal. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 1991, pp. 38–39, 153, ill. (color and black and white), dates it to the autumn of 1881 based on the autumnal colors and character of the flowers; suggests that it was painted either at the country house of Renoir#39;s patron, Paul Bérard, at Wargemont in September or in Paris before Renoir left for Italy at the end of October; notes that Renoir found it easier to experiment with different color harmonies in flower paintings than in figure paintings; states that the composition follows the standard format for Renoir#39;s flower pictures and mentions the influence of Fantin-Latour.

Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 482, ill.

Rebecca A. Rabinow. quot;Modern Art Comes to the Metropolitan: The 1921 Exhibition of #39;Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings#39;.quot; Apollo 152 (October 2000), p. 12, fig. 9 (installation photo).

Richard Shone. The Janice H. Levin Collection of French Art. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2002, p. 67, fig. 31.

Guy-Patrice Dauberville, and Michel Dauberville, with Camille Fremontier-Murphy. Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles. Vol. 1, 1858–1881. Paris, 2007, p. 129, no. 38, ill.

Colin B. Bailey in Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection. Ed. Susan Alyson Stein and Asher Ethan Miller. 4th rev. ed. [1st ed., 1989]. New York, 2009, pp. 115–18, no. 22, ill. (color).

John Collins in Renoir Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago. Ed. Gloria Groom and Jill Shaw. Chicago, 2014, para. 2, under no. 15, fig. 15.2 (color) [https://publications.artic.edu/renoir/reader/paintingsanddrawings/section/138973], compares it to “Peonies” (ca. 1880, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown) and “Chrysanthemums” (1881/82, Art Institute of Chicago); states it was likely painted after 1881 on stylistic grounds.

Colta Ives. Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2018, pp. 151, 155, 188, fig. 152 (color), states that the flowers were probably gathered at Wargemont during a visit to the Bérard family.

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Bouquet of Chrysanthemums, 1881, Auguste Renoir, French - Stretc