Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Le Chapeau Épinglé, 2e planche - image-1
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Lot 103 Dα

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Le Chapeau Épinglé, 2e planche

Auction 1224 - overview Cologne
07.06.2023, 11:00 - Day Sale - Modern Art
Estimate: 25.000 € - 30.000 €

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Le Chapeau Épinglé, 2e planche
Circa 1898

Colour lithograph on wove paper with watermark "MBM". 60.4 x 49.5 cm (90.5 x 62.8 cm). Framed under glass. Signed 'Renoir' in the stone lower right. - Browned in the wide margins under mat.

The magnificent, large-scale colour lithograph “Le chapeau épinglé” is among Renoir’s most outstanding prints. It has an painterly effect: the soft tonality and freshness of Renoir’s paintings have been expertly transposed into the medium of the printing technique – a masterful achievement by the artist and his printer, Auguste Clot. Although carefully composed by the artist, the scene seems as though it were captured spontaneously. As the work’s title already suggests, the hat decorated in splendid colours really is the focus of the composition. It immediately attracts the viewer’s gaze: the colour of the print is concentrated there.
The famous art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard, who published the edition of “Le chapeau épinglé”, mentions the work in his memoirs: “Renoir, who always displayed the greatest goodwill towards me, also created a number of lithographs for me, including the well-known sheet ‘Chapeau épinglé’, which he carried out in black and in colour, using ink for the one plate and pencil for the other” (cited from: Ambroise Vollard, Erinnerungen eines Kunsthändlers, Zurich 1980, pp. 263 f.).

Catalogue Raisonné

Stella 30; Delteil 30

Provenance

Private collection, Germany